This New Trick is Taking Over Baseball

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[gosato]

The length of baseball history is so vast that it's hard to believe there's anything no one has tried before. 😂

[cooperburns]

This is seems like a genius play to get out of a double play, no more dirty slides into second though

[Natediggetydog]

I’m surprised it took this long for somebody to think of this. The fact that running through the bag instead of sliding faster has been known forever, so it’s weird that no one thought to apply it in these situations

[JosephDalton-xciw]

It’s pretty incredible that after 150 years, new tricks are still being invented

[HunterNolin]

Whenever you accidentially press the advance runner button on MLB theSHOW😂😂

[cisium]

Smart. Utility depends on the game situation, and here it would depend on the score and the inning. With one out and a runner on third it's a no-brainer because the DP ends the inning anyway. With 0 outs there is more risk, but most defenses will trade a run for a DP if the defensive team is ahead, or if it's an early inning. The more this is done, however, the more defenses will adapt, stepping back from the 2d base bag instead of throwing off it.

[mybadkids]

"What that new base running trick?"

"Oh yea, its just

[Tselel]

As a fighting game fan, I appreciate this development in the baseball meta.

[cdeezy]

As a runner in my day. I always told teams elite base running has a huge impact on winning percentages. Now we're seeing it

[stormy]

Pretty soon we're gonna see reverse tagups on pop flies. Since the basepath isn't established until fielders try to make a tag on a runner, and since you're allowed to run the bases backwards if you're doing it for a legitimate reason, I wanna see runners get set up four paces down the third-base foul line and have the base coach time it up for them so that when the outfielder catches the ball, they're already at a full sprint towards home during the tag up.

[jeffreybuffkin]

Glad to see my little league coach’s strategy finally catching on. We practiced base awareness for this exact reason. When to steal, when to lead, when to ignore tags. His objective was always to have one more run

[tsb-]

I taught my stepdaughter's fast pitch team to do this 25 years ago! My reasoning is to force throwing errors. This works because the kids are hearing so many people telling them where to throw.

[cooper_]

Watching him just blaze past second and continue to third like that was so funny to me idk why 😂

[MrJmcd]

I think it should be an interferance forced called out. The baserunner is majorly getting in the way of a throw to first and its dangerous to bulldoze through a second basemen or shortstop. Even the baserunner could get pegged by a thrown ball. I dont think baserunners should be treating 2nd base like its 1st base

[lawrenceehrbar]

Ive been a proponent of this for years. I even got laughed off the air on WFAN-NY when calling in. Then, my redemption. A year later, I heard TV commentator and former player/mgr. Bobby Valentine mention it on a nationally televised game. He said it should be instinctively executed in a tie game (or perhaps when trailing by 1), in the 9th inning or later. Me? I can remember the many times an extra inning came to a close from a ground ball to deep short and the only option is the force-out at 2nd. The majority being "out by a whisker."

[txguy]

My understanding is the reason why you slide is to not get a interference call and also not overshot the base if you beat the throw. Now I could be wrong on it but that's my understanding.

[thomasdixon]

So to clarify, the run still scores on a force out unless it’s the 3rd out then it doesn’t.

[BurkholderCustomCarpentryLLC]

When I taught middle school, I had a guy that had the longest legs, and he was FAST, and he just wouldn’t stop running. He was so fast he could just hit a ball average, and he’d make it home just on continued infield errors. It was always fun to watch.

[ShaneWallsNSW]

Easy solution...SS or 2B on the bag turns to throw to 1st base and drills the upright runner in the chest. That is obstruction and runner at 1st is out. Do that a few times thru the week, let it get shown on highlights and this shit stops

[cya]

The best part of rule changes in sports is how players/managers find ways to exploit those changes for their benefit. It’s a great loop. Make a change, find the exploit, change again to stop exploit, find new way to exploit that change.