Expert Analysis
Best (Legal) Way to Break Up Double Play
Topics: Interference, Official Baseball Rules, Rule of the Week, Runner Interference, Runners, Video - Runner
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Expert Analysis
Best (Legal) Way to Break Up a Double Play
Topics: Baseline, Expert Analysis, Fielding, Interference, Latest News, Runner Interference, Runners
I have advocated in my spring training presentations that the pop-up slide is an excellent technique to help break up the double play at second base in a force situation. Because of the 2016 sliding regulations under rule 6.01 (j), runners obviously do not have the liberal opportunity they had in the past when breaking…