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suicide squeeze

F freddy775,000+ posts
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And how many players on a team are any of us willing to suicide squeeze? R3 has to be the right guy. Right guy in the box. Right situation. The enemy has to be set up right.


My buddy coaches HS (not here in town). We were talking about the suicide. It's his favorite play in baseball. His college coach used it. It's virtually impossible to defend against. Etc. I asked him, In your five years as HS coach, how many times have you suicide squeezed? He thought for a second and answered, Never.

But he straight stole home twice last spring. Because, IMO, there are times in the 3B box that you KNOW your guy can steal the plate; whereas the suicide is always a question mark.
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SdleftySdlefty500+ posts
Love to squeeze, but you need to have the correct players at the plate and 3b and work on it in BP.

True story: A few years ago in a high school game, I put it on. The kid at the plate is looking square at me. He misses the sign and hits a homerun. I could not be upset with him, we just scored two runs....

Lefty
F freddy775,000+ posts
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Originally posted by raiderbb:
We have gotten out of more defensive jams because the other team tried to suicide squeeze than I can even count. Very rarely been hurt by it.
On the other hand, I do like the safety squeeze. We work on it alot and use it. Not a fan of the suicide squeeze in high school though.


Agree about preference for safety over suicide.
We suicided last year to prove a point (long story).
G gcfan330710+ posts
My team has successfully squeezed in 9 runs this season in 15 games. It's almost automatic that we squeeze with one out and a man on third. After word got out, we now are seeing pitch outs in those situations and I've stopped squeezing. My hitters are constantly getting into 1-0 or 2-0 counts because of the reputation.

If you can bunt at the high school level, bunt like crazy.

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