Unassisted putouts by a center fielder are common, but surely you've never seen this way

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Didnt’ a fielder without the ball impede the runner’s path as he came around 3rd?

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Did’t look like the catcher obstructed to me.

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Aren’t most flyouts unassisted?

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Yes, poor thread title to try to make it more interesting.

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The video i watched, a commenter saud he should have run into the catcher or tripped 9ver him.

Crazy play

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If you just changed “aren’t” to “are” then I think the title works.

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done

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Saw this on Antonelli Baseball channel yesterday. Wild play. Here’s all the mistakes I see:

  1. SS misses the initial catch (maybe 50/50 he could have caught it with better preparation)

  2. P doesn’t cover 2B when the infield backs up on the pop fly.

  3. C doesn’t cover 3B quickly enough when 3B moves to cover second.

  4. Third base coach gives a very weak, very easy-to-miss STOP signal (am I the only one that notices this?)

  5. Runner misses or ignores third base coach’s weak, very easy-to-miss STOP signal (forgivable in this situation)

  6. 1B doesn’t dash for home when he sees that the C is heading to cover third. (then again, why would he? who would expect a runner to be heading home in this situation? forgivable).

So I score this 3 defensive errors, 2 excused misses, and one Oops, my bad on the coach.

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While the best high school SS could probably make that catch, I wouldn’t call that an error.

For sure a sloppy mistake. These guys aren’t MLB players.

Yep, another sloppy mistake.

Didn’t notice the coach, but this seems plausible. Obviously in hindsight they should have contended himself with two fielding errors allowing him to advance to third on a single. Not very predictable that the center fielder would tag the batter out at the plate though!!!

It’s forgivable only because it’s high school. If this had happened in the pros I would absolutely expect the first baseman to notice that the plate was not covered. However, nothing bad actually happened because the first baseman wasn’t where he should have been. In fact, it arguably helped the defense since the base runner obviously would not have attempted to run home if there was a defensive player covering the plate.

Since you only count an error if it results in a runner advancing when they shouldn’t, technically only 2 defensive errors, coupled with some additional suboptimal fielding.

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Anontelli had a good take on it. Sometimes I find he takes a 30 second explanation and makes if 5 minutes, but this one was good. (in his defense, he makes money as a content creator and 30 seconds doesn’t get you paid)

1b is the fielder who failed the worst I figure. if you are standing and watching from the infield, you likely are doing something wrong.

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Yup. You are backing up the catcher, covering second, covering a dugout so the wayward thrown ball doesn’t land there, or something like that.