My lead off LHB does his job and gets on. On his own decides to steal, no sign because it's first inning and I want to see the catchers arm and haven't had a pitch from the stretch to time the pitcher, but he's safe at second. Two hole RHB has a .950 OBP and slaps a blooper to short RF, it is a close play with the RF charging hard and 2B making a good move to cover. Runner on 2B is watching with me trying to determine what the play is going to be. I've changed my mind 20 times on wither anyone is going to be able to make the catch in less than 3 seconds the ball has come off the bat. 2B runner has good baseball intelligence so he has checked up about 1/3 from 2B waiting...ball is dropped so I call "COME, COME, COME!!!" Well, it was the first inning and in the heat of the moment it had slipped my mind that the field we are playing at has a short RF with a 20+ foot wall and although I visually saw the RF standing in the "middle" of RF it was not too far to throw to 3rd to get the out. That was a TERRIBLE first out of the game and an error on me.
Only got worse when the 2 hole guy got to 3rd with my 4 hole batter on 1st...runners on the corners with 2 outs. I have a standing rule that you don't need a sign to go with runners on the corners, so 1B runner goes. Catcher pops up and throws hard...to the pitcher (you know where this is going don't you). Before I could even say STOP!!! to the 3B runner, he bit. To make it worse, as he got into the pickle he focused too much on the situation and did not listen to me coaching 3B, after the catcher threw to 3B and then 3B threw back to catcher, the 3B was now out of position to the runner and no one was covering 3B...but runner gave up in the run down and inning was over. Absolutely SUCKS giving up 2 out of 3 outs on the base paths for a team like ours that struggles to manufacture runs.
We have hit REALLY well this year...just to everyone's fielders. If we weren't a nobody program I would swear someone is scouting our hitting because they sure as heck know where we are hitting.