Sorry Josh, but I disagree. We used to teach the catcher to step one step forward then go up the line for the ball. If he had been trying to catch the ball, he would have had a better chance of getting an out. The ball wasn't really close to where he set up to "wait for it" right in the base path. Then the lifting the elbow to make sure he got a piece of the runner made it worse. I think the ump warned him, which is probably why Bianco came out of the dugout. It was a dirty play intended to make it look like just rugged baseball, but he planted in the path and could see the throw wasn't coming to that spot.

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Posted by Laces Out Dan

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Posted on 5/17/13 at 10:18 am to dinosaur

I am sure the fact that Turner and Rhymes played together at LSU Eunice and were once good friends might have had a big impact on Turner throwing the elbow up...definitely a dirty play

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Posted by josh336

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Posted on 5/17/13 at 10:31 am to dinosaur

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We used to teach the catcher to step one step forward then go up the line for the ball. If he had been trying to catch the ball, he would have had a better chance of getting an out

Guess you missed the part where I said ideally thats what you would want your catcher to do in that situation......here is what I posted on page 2

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Everything was done correctly, just a bad timing play. Ideally, you'd like the catcher to move up a step to field that ball.

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Posted by King Joey

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Posted on 5/17/13 at 5:05 pm to dinosaur

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Then the lifting the elbow to make sure he got a piece of the runner made it worse. I think the ump warned him, which is probably why Bianco came out of the dugout. It was a dirty play intended to make it look like just rugged baseball, but he planted in the path and could see the throw wasn't coming to that spot.

I noticed that elbow/shoulder the catcher set to put a hit on Rhymes, too. I wouldn't go so far as to call it "dirty" as it may have just been instinct when he saw the collision coming, but it wasn't purely innocent, "oh, I'm just here trying to catch a ball." He clearly set for impact as Rhymes was approaching and put on what would have been called a "hard screen" in basketball.