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#20946	07/10/2015 3:12:45 pm		Ignore
cmneal2 Joined: 04/03/2015 Posts: 3 Inactive	Bottom 11th: Peoria Kennedy takes the mound to pitch. Nunez draws a walk. Nunez steals second base. The outfield is playing shallow. Alvarez grounds to second base. Alvarez is thrown out at first by Washington. Nunez advances to third base. The infield draws in and outfield is playing shallow. May grounds to short stop. May is thrown out at first by Hinojosa. Nunez comes in to score. Normal 5, Peoria 6 With my infield playing in, it being the bottom half of an extra inning game, why would my short stop go to first on a ground ball to get the 2nd out while allowing the winning run to score without even trying to throw home?
#20957	07/10/2015 4:46:09 pm		Ignore
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9599 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Your SS might have had to layout or charge for the ball. At the same time the runner on 3rd would have been half way home by the time the hitter hit the ball. There was probably a 0% chance of throwing the guy out at home, so the SS just threw it over to 1B.
#20959	07/10/2015 4:54:20 pm		Ignore
cmneal2 Joined: 04/03/2015 Posts: 3 Inactive	I was thinking something like that myself, just thought that if he was drawn in and had time to throw across the diamond to first, he at least had a chance to try to get him at home.
#20960	07/10/2015 6:07:16 pm		Ignore
afreespirit Joined: 09/17/2011 Posts: 305 Inactive	If there was a force play at home then the fielder has a better chance. But in this case the catcher has to tag the runner so it becomes more difficult to make the out. More likely in this situation you would see the runner hold at 3B if the ball was hit hard directly at your SS, and the hitter would be out at 1B.
#20964	07/10/2015 7:25:53 pm		Ignore
terryhumphreys Joined: 01/20/2014 Posts: 103 Athens Gold IV.5	the runner on third saw the throw was going low and to the outfield side of first base and then decided to go home knowing the first basemen would be in a bad position to throw home.
#20986	07/11/2015 12:53:52 pm		Ignore
cmneal2 Joined: 04/03/2015 Posts: 3 Inactive	I like to think that my fielder just has a really low IQ and thought there was two outs.
#20989	07/11/2015 1:53:04 pm		Ignore
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9599 Haverhill Halflings III.1	LOL. Are you the Red Sox?
#21047	07/13/2015 5:22:46 am		Ignore
MukilteoMike Joined: 08/09/2014 Posts: 3294 Inactive	I've seen that happen many times here, but it almost never happens in real life at the major league level. The normal exception (that sounds like an oxymoron) is when there's a speedster on third and he decides to go for it immediately after the infielder throws to first. In this case he's kind of fast, but at a 14 speed he isn't blazing fast. I would give this scenario a pass here if I ever saw a double play with the guy getting nabbed at home; I bet that is something that hasn't been programmed as a possibility, though. In other words, this is something that shouldn't happen. Fielding and base running oddities happen far too often. My biggest pet peeve is when a team is losing by multiple runs in their last at bat and a runner is gunned down trying to take an extra base. If he isn't the tying or go ahead run, this should never ever hppen. His run is meaningless, so his only task is to get on base and not make an out. Unfortunately this inexcusable blunder happens frequently here. Updated Monday, July 13 2015 @ 5:24:10 am PDT
#21085	07/15/2015 5:52:41 am		Ignore
itsjustmath Joined: 09/20/2013 Posts: 34 Plymouth Pilgrims IV.4	The first mistake was not intentionally walking May and setting up the potential double play.
#21087	07/15/2015 9:56:51 am
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	I will look into the frequency for which this happens. Does seem like, if the infield is in, most of the time the fielder will come home -- whether he get the out or not. Steve

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