We do the same as mmeece, because the distance is so short that it is easy for the player to score/advance if you don't make sure to push them back first. Have seen too many times a girl will take 1/3rd of a lead off, and just wait for you to dare throw behind her (then score when you don't...
I remember hearing a story from a friend about his daughter wanting to quit the sport she had been doing forever, even though she was getting scholarship offers for it. Now I don't know if you are at a level that you can get a scholarship, but his thing was that the sport was her job now as...