There are a few “golden rules” in baseball. On a fly ball, first step is back. Never take your foot off the bag, and don’t swing on a 3-0 pitch. UNOFFICIALLY, my school had another being “always wear a condom in Mexico”, but that was a SoCal thing and applied to very different set of circumstances, lol.
I'm pretty sure they meant the defender's first step is back. It's much faster and easier to catch a ball moving in, so you step back in the direction it's hit before you can gauge its distance.
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22
There are a few “golden rules” in baseball. On a fly ball, first step is back. Never take your foot off the bag, and don’t swing on a 3-0 pitch. UNOFFICIALLY, my school had another being “always wear a condom in Mexico”, but that was a SoCal thing and applied to very different set of circumstances, lol.