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State semi-final game yesterday in Colorado. I was at the game because two of the pitchers on the losing side of this game are my students. With two outs and the tying run on second, Rye High School won with this play that made Sportcenter as the SC Top 10 #1 "Play of the Day":

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I've seen this run many times, usually about a 50/50 success rate.  The pitcher did make one CRITICAL error, which I've also actually seen cause this to fail miserably.  He actually has the ball in his throwing hand when he fakes the throw.  The proper way to run this is to never remove the ball from your glove.  You fake the throw with a bare hand and immediately begin drifting toward the area between short and third with the ball in your glove, never having shown the ball.  The way this pitcher ran it, you can see him "re-glove" the ball.  Plus the risk (and where I've seen this fail) is during the fake where he can actually have the ball slip out of his hand and launch it God knows where.

 

Other than that, it's a great play when the tension is high and you have to have a critical out.

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