Do you try a sac bunt and hope it's not a DP?
Bunt and run to hopefully get the bunt to work?
Take the K looking?
Swing away?
Personally I'd almost rather power swing and hope I don't hit a ground ball than give my opponent an easy 1 pitch bunt DP.
@eatyum said in Runner on first, <2 outs pitcher is up. What do you do?:
Take the first pitch, and the second if the first one is a ball. Then bunt and run
This is the right answer, but I do like showing bunt slightly early before the first pitch then pulling it back. Usually if you do this you'll get a ball thrown on purpose (via a bad release).
@jonnydaman said in Runner on first, <2 outs pitcher is up. What do you do?:
Do you try a sac bunt and hope it's not a DP?
Bunt and run to hopefully get the bunt to work?
Take the K looking?
Swing away?Personally I'd almost rather power swing and hope I don't hit a ground ball than give my opponent an easy 1 pitch bunt DP.
Are you winning or losing and what's the score? What inning? You didn't mention possibly pinch hitting for your pitcher is why I ask.
@onnagood1 said in Runner on first, <2 outs pitcher is up. What do you do?:
@jonnydaman said in Runner on first, <2 outs pitcher is up. What do you do?:
Do you try a sac bunt and hope it's not a DP?
Bunt and run to hopefully get the bunt to work?
Take the K looking?
Swing away?Personally I'd almost rather power swing and hope I don't hit a ground ball than give my opponent an easy 1 pitch bunt DP.
Are you winning or losing and what's the score? What inning? You didn't mention possibly pinch hitting for your pitcher is why I ask.
That's a good question. I wanted to leave that out of this and just talk about situations where you've decided to keep your pitcher in for simplicity.
As for people that try to bunt and run, how often do you get burned by being caught stealing? I know personally that I try to throw a high fastball so I can manipulate the meter and throw it too high to bunt if I see a slow runner stealing but I haven't tried the strategy enough myself to know whether that's common or rare
I’m bunting 100% of the time. I won’t steal though. I would rather bunt into a double play than steal and have my pitcher pop up the bunt for a double play.
@tylerp04 said in Runner on first, <2 outs pitcher is up. What do you do?:
I’m bunting 100% of the time. I won’t steal though. I would rather bunt into a double play than steal and have my pitcher pop up the bunt for a double play.
This 100% depends on who the runner on 1st is.
