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R3. Passed ball on a short backstop. R3 is off to the races. F2 dumps his bucket and scrambles after the ball. R3 is in full on sprint. F2 grabs the rock and dive headlong back toward the dish. CHOO!CHOO! F2 tags the sliding R3 center mass with all his momentum, and rolls into fair ground. R3, wind knocked out of him, lay there gasping for air. Never got to the plate. F2, laying on his back, opens his mitt to show me the pearl inside. He got you right there! BANG! Everything was legal. Sometimes Amtrak meets Santa Fe. I actually did say that. Thanks Danny! :D
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Lengthy. Bear with me. As many of you know, I call Mexican Men's League and work solo. Always behind the plate. The strike zone is better and I can judge fair/foul more accurately. Plus, everything is in front of me. So I'm on the dish and Speedy Gonzalez hits a liner to the LF alley. I bounce out and am about 1/2 way between the mound and the dish watching him touch 1B. He pulls up, apparently not going to try to stretch it into a 2 bagger. I pull up and find the ball. I guess F7 bobbled it or booted it because I see BR in my peripheral take off for 2B. The ball is in the air, gonna be a whacker. I break into full sprint, busting ass to get into position in the working area for the call. 3 or 4 strides into my sprint, F1 decides it's a good idea to back up the throw from F8 (wtf???). I never saw him. In full stride, he steps in front of me, and KABLAM! I trucked him and we both hit the ground. I'm uninjured, but he's writhing in pain (I'm 6', 235-240lbs, he's 5'7" or so and weighs maybe 170lbs). Of course I never saw the play. Other than a grass stain on the left leg of my GD plates (dammit!), I'm no worse for the wear. F1 had the wind knocked out of him, but no real injury. I decided to remove my gear and call the last 2 innings behind F1, and will do just that every solo game from here on in.
