Reply to "The 60 time"

It seems to me that if you hit the bag with your left (inside) foot you would also reduce the possibility of an ankle sprain due to a mis-placed landing on the bag. You might stumble, but you won't roll the ankle. Your right foot would have more of a tendency to roll under if you had a bad touch on the bag.

A couple years ago, my son learned this the hard way ... a long shot to CF on a field without a fence looked like a sure HR on the roll. He hit 2B at full speed and his right ankle gave way ... he had sprained it earlier that month so it was already weak. The good news was he was wearing a laceup brace. He plowed a groove in the infield with his face all the way out to the SS position, then hobbled over to 3B for the standup triple ... the brace saved his ankle so the only injury was to his dignity ... and some road rash. He and his teammates laughed pretty long about it.

It would probably have resulted in a very bad sprain without the brace, but had he landed on his left foot instead, the right foot would have next been on flat ground and would have been OK.