- May 20, 2015
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in over 100 games the past year and half I have NEVER seen the runner on 3B in a first n third situation get called for look back rule. Its like the umpire is only focused on the runner rounding 1B. In almost every circumstance the girl at third is creeping.
We have practiced defensively for this using our fastest and slowest girl running even going as far as telling the runner on 3rd not to leave until the throw. In 9/10 with pitcher at back of circle snapping to two for a tag and throwing home to turn it the girl at home is safe regardless of her speed.
so offensively we send them to two with eyes on pitcher if she throws they are taught to get in a pickle.
Defensively we teach the catchers to fake throw as hard as possible to second base and snap to third hoping to draw the runner off. We have found that works far more often than anything else as long as there is a good fake from the catcher. However its becoming so common of a play we also teach the girls offensively at third to stay still the fake/snap back is coming.
In games that are decided by 1-2 runs I hate taking an out to give up a run. Id rather have my pitcher work the zone high looking for pop ups/fly outs till you get two outs.
throw to the bag? we bring 2b up in the baseline 1/3-1/2 of the way to the 1B bag, and make the throw there.....enough time for me to see what runner on 3b does, if she's not moving i'm calling it out to the umpire.....catcher tells P when/if to make the throw to 2 or to 4.......but closer to 1b in the baseline, not to the bag......the throw from pitcher to there and from there to home is much, much shorter than all the way to the bag......we've run it in games twice, once got the DP, once had both runners retreat as soon as they saw what was setting up......