Collision at the Plate

[10range]

This is why I never caught when I played ball. Shot was taken at a Fort Wayne Wizzards game a couple of months ago from the first row of the stands behind the dugout. I couldn't talk the security guards into letting me get up to the fence at ground level.

The throw beat the runner by a good 20-30 feet and this was his attempt at making it. The catcher held on to the ball and runner was out.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/10range/General%20Pictures/Colisionattheplateweb.jpg

[Redfish]

crop it tighter

[10range]

I was thinking too after I looked at it a bit. The longest lens that I have is 200mm so this image is cropped quite a bit.
Here is a tighter crop.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c328/10range/Colisionattheplateweb1.jpg

[SMP_Homer]

This is why I never caught when I played ball. Shot was taken at a Fort Wayne Wizzards game a couple of months ago from the first row of the stands behind the dugout. I couldn't talk the security guards into letting me get up to the fence at ground level.

The throw beat the runner by a good 20-30 feet and this was his attempt at making it. The catcher held on to the ball and runner was out.



In these collisions, as long as the catcher keeps his mask on, he'll win the collision... as a runner, I always hated running into a fully equipped catcher... those hard plastic guards and blockers really hurt if you them wrong...

[10range]

In these collisions, as long as the catcher keeps his mask on, he'll win the collision... as a runner, I always hated running into a fully equipped catcher... those hard plastic guards and blockers really hurt if you them wrong...

This collision was really half-hearted on the runners part. He obviously slowed down before the collision. This is not a collision that Pete Rose would have been proud of. It really was not the runners fault because watching from the stands, I kept waiting for the third base coach to stop him at third but he waived him in. Cant fault the guy for listening to the coach.