If I coached this team, I would

[missouridawg]

cut off the hands of anyone who tried to use them as the first piece of their body to touch first base after a batted ball.<div>
</div><div>Run through the 17'n bag on infield singles. </div>

 

[jethreauxdawg]

I believe it was in the last Olympic's qualifying events, two guys were even in the 100m and one dove at the end. He won.

 

[missouridawg]

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[weblow]

He claimed they had an entire physics class on this very thing. I assume the response came from that class but I really don't know for certain.

"Since someone mentioned physics, the physics are basically that your center of gravity is moving at a steady rate (horizontally), so by laying out, you make yourself 'longer', getting your arms or legs to the bag before your CG gets there. Running through (upright), with your CG about in your middle, means you get there slightly later.

If you slide, actually hitting the dirt before you get to the bag, then your CG is no longer moving at a constant horizontal rate (you're slowing down from friction), so you would need to lay out in the air, hitting the dirt and the bag at the same time, with your finger tips."

 

[jethreauxdawg]

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[missouridawg]

http://www.my-youth-baseball.com/dive-or-run-past-first-base.html

 

[Todd4State]

is if an infielder makes a high/bad throw where the first baseman/pitcher/whoever is covering first has to jump and gets pulled off the bag and try to make a tag. That way, you reduce the chance of getting tagged out.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

A simple Google search returns all kinds of links on why it's always faster to run through the bag rather than sliding.<div>
</div><div>Unfortunately, we do it so often that I'm afraid we've been coached to dive for some reason...</div>

 

[skydawg1]

Sliding into 1st isn't something we've done all year (like, say, oversliding 2nd and 3rd base). Hopefully it's nothing that the team will continue to do.

 

[MonkeyCheese]

and then made him run the next day...his daddy would sue you in two year's time.