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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (24781)	2/4/2009 4:48:09 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 91319

If you continue your arc you can go into the outfield, once you stop your next move has to be in a straight line to 2nd or back to first. Yes the play is done to make the other team over react and throw to the right fielder, then the guy on 3rd scores. Usually the other team would be screaming out of the base path, no ump called that, they all said it was a legal play. The defensive answer is just let the guy hang out there and pitch to the next batter, hoping he hits a ground ball and you get a double play. Regarding your last sentence, what we would do with a man on 3rd and 2nd less then 2 outs, is we would send the guy on 2nd to third (as he does this all the players on the bench would be yelling back,back) the guy going to 3rd would 'act' like he just realized his mistake and come to a sliding stop about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way to third. At this point we are hoping the defense throws to 2nd, when that happened(about 80% of the time) the guy on third would go home and the guy from second would get up from his sliding stop and coast into third. The defensive stop is have the catcher throw to the SS but most get caught up in the moment and throw to 2nd.

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (24781)	2/4/2009 4:53:14 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 91319

"If the ump rules that the intent was to deceive, regardless of the rule, he could call the batter out and force the runner back to third. " that's tough call a lot of baseball is deception. My son played short and if a guy was on second and a ground ball was hit to him sometimes he would charge the ball and fake the throw to first and tag the runner out on second who would break for third on the throw. Same thing when a guy hit double with say a man on 2d(or 1st). As the ball game into the in field the guy on 2nd might be rounding third going for home, my son would fake the throw to the plate hoping the guy who hit the double would try to go to third and my son would just tag him out when he left 2nd