Quote Originally Posted by Todd4State View Post
Aggressiveness wins. It looks bad when it doesn't work though! But in general it does when you more than it doesn't of done at the right time.

My favorite play of all time- runners first and third delayed double steal. Runner from first takes off and then the catcher has to decide whether to give up the base or throw through. When and if the catcher throws through runner from third takes off hard for home. If he doesn't throw through you've taken yourself out of a double play and put another runner in scoring position. If they throw through it takes two good throws essentially to get the out at home and it rushes the middle infielder taking tne throw with a lot of distractions.

Only time it doesn't work is if you have runners slow as Christmas or the runner on third takes off too soon and gets in a run down but the catcher has to be really heads up to lure the runner into a run down.
Yeah i agree. Always loved the first and third situation as a third base coach. Something I used to do a lot of that's been lost with all the exit velo, launch angle, hr craze, is hit and run with runners on first and third. Talk about creating some chaos. The defense has their first and third defend called and the runner takes off and they don't expect a swing and all of a sudden there's all kinds of home for the hitter to just tap a ground ball through. Learned that from Whitey Herzog.