Mom, cmon, really?

[02Crush]

FYI, Florida beat Georgia last week in SEC Championship Tournie. FL bunted with two out and also bunted a player with 2 striker on her. It went foul and she sat down. Sometimes, you do what you have to do. No matter the odds. If you are confident in the player in that skill and it will catch a team off guard....You do it.

 

[InsidePitch]

DD got the fake bunt sign with two outs to help the dbl steal. Steal on, she doesn't pull back and lays down the bunt. In the confusion they over throw 1st, we score, rally and win. When the coach asked why she bunted she said it was the perfect pitch to bunt and she just couldn't lay off from it and she knew she'd beat any throw.

Sometimes the bunt with 2 outs catches the D so out of place it works very well.

 

[Rocketech1]

DD got the fake bunt sign with two outs to help the dbl steal. Steal on, she doesn't pull back and lays down the bunt. In the confusion they over throw 1st, we score, rally and win. When the coach asked why she bunted she said it was the perfect pitch to bunt and she just couldn't lay off from it and she knew she'd beat any throw.

Sometimes the bunt with 2 outs catches the D so out of place it works very well.

Have to be honest with you here, if she was given the sign to fake bunt and bunted anyways, I as a coach would not be happy. I don't care if she hit the game winning home run. What message does this send to all the players in the team? It's ok to ignore the signs whenever you feel like it? Hard to coach the game from 3rd not knowing if your players will execute the signs they are given.

 

[DD11]

^ Yep. I recall many times taking a shot rather than running the set play and getting screamed at for draining a wide open 3. Sometimes there is a method to the coach's madness.

 

[BrianMonk]

^ Yep. I recall many times taking a shot rather than running the set play and getting screamed at for draining a wide open 3. Sometimes there is a method to the coach's madness.

Sometimes there is a method and other times the coach is just a mad man.

 

[init4thegirls]

If, and I mean IF, that was the thinking, then that is problem #1. If you don't have confidence in your players, then they won't have confidence in themselves. I have seen this 1st hand with my DD.

It makes all the difference in the world. When I played LL baseball the 9yr olds were generally told to bunt twice, and good luck on the 3rd one. They never got a chance to hit. One hit might be all it takes to get a kid going!