How To Play Baseball: Decoying Runners

In the situation we are in right now, we have asked the second baseman to move up in to position. This would typically be done in the first and third situation, where you are second baseman slides forward and your shortstop covers the bag. In an essence, what we are going to do is when the throw passes the second baseman, if it is a good throw, he is going to pop his glove and act as if he caught it. What we are trying to do is to freeze the runner off third base, long enough to make the tag play at second and return the throw home.

Okay fellows. Let us take a look at it. Watch the second baseman slide up in front, he is going to pop the glove and he is going to yell go as the ball passes him, shortstop will make the tag. Here they go, good. Now, see as the ball went by even though it bounced in the dirt, it is tough for the runner, because all he heard was a pop of the glove and the he yelled go.

Again, second baseman breaks front, hits his glove, sets himself like he is going to make the throw and all we have to do is hesitate that runner on third just a split second and we have got enough arm strength to sure to make the throw home and double that runner up.


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