Reply to "Contact Play - High School"

We almost always do it when we have R2 and R3.

Not often when we have R3 only.

With R2 and R3, when it backfires, it doesn't deflate the team, or the 3BC.

It's a downer when R3-only contact play blows up.

I strongly believe that over the years the R2/R3 contact play has earned us a lot more runs than it has cost us.

Btw, very important, when this play "works", you (the 3BC) get no credit. When it doesn't work--when R3 is out at the plate--everybody in the ballpark thinks that the 3BC and/or the R3 is an idiot. There's no chance to be a hero; only a goat. But I keep doing it.

Compare that to calling for a suicide, where at least you've got the chance to be a hero.

4/10/1411:49 AM

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