Baseball Coaching – Suicide Squeeze Play

If a team has a speedy runner on third and a good bunter at the plate, the manager may call for a suicide squeeze. In this play the runner breaks for home as soon as the pitcher starts his motion toward the plate. He runs full speed toward the plate, and it is up to [...]

Coaching Baseball Tips – Safety Squeeze Play

A safety squeeze is a specific type of sacrifice play that a manager may call for when he has a runner on third base. The runner waits until the ball is bunted, and then decides if he will be able to score. If so, he breaks for home. The best time to try the safety [...]

Baseball Baserunning Tips – Sliding Tips

There are two ways of sliding, headfirst and feet first. The headfirst slide is quicker to the base because the runner stretches his body, extends his arm, and reaches as far as he can. The feet first slide is more conventional, but the runner does not reach the base as quickly because he has to [...]

Baseball Baserunning Tips – Tagging Up

Tagging up is a way for a runner to advance a base when an out is made. A runner can tag up only on a fly ball caught with less than two outs. He must wait until the ball is touched by the outfielder before leaving his base and running to the next one. Most [...]

Baseball Baserunning Tips – Taking An Extra Base

A player is said to be taking an extra base on a hit when he advances one more base than the hit itself would guarantee. For example, a runner on first takes an extra base by going all the way to third when a teammate hits a single to right field, because the single normally [...]

Baseball Baserunning Tips – Double Steal

A double steal is when two players steal at once. It most often occurs with runners at first and third base. The runner on first breaks to steal second, and when the catcher throws to second, the runner at third breaks for home. Sometimes the defense counters a double steal by having the shortstop or [...]

Baseball Baserunning Tips – Stealing Tips

A player steals a base when he challenges the defense by advancing to the next base without the ball being hit by a teammate. Players can steal anytime they think they can make it to the next base without the defense tagging them out. Players usually steal while the pitcher is delivering the ball to [...]

Baseball Hitting Tips – Hitting Behind A Runner

When a batter is hitting behind the runner, he is hitting the ball to the right side of the field, which is behind a runner who is going from first to second base. If the ball is hit behind the runner and the ball goes into the outfield, the runner has a good chance to [...]