Should you ever hold a runner on 3B. It has happened a few times this year. My answer is Never, you are sacrificing a fielder being out of position to make a play on the ball. He might creep close to the bag to keep the runner close to the bag but not take up a first baseman type hold. We have a young, somewhat inexperienced 3B so I thought that the coach would motion to him to move away but just looked at him and said nothing. Situations when this has happened have varied form early in the game with runners on 2B/3B to late in the game down by 3 runs with bases loaded. Am I missing something??
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