Reply to "Is it "Bush" is it baseball? Your favorite trick play and when you stopped using it."

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Best way I have seen this play defended and how we defend this play is the following. Pitcher steps off, ignoring runner at 3rd. Full arm fake to the MIF covering and turn towards runner prepared to throw. Our pitchers are taught to do this at all times when this play is run. We have not had a Runner from 3rd score on us in 5 yrs. Teams started getting wise to this so they would leave early with the intention of stealing the base. We would have 2b crash and give it up and we started getting outs from that.

10/17/1410:33 AM

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