Intro to Baseball: Defensive Positioning and Shifting

A quick overview of some of the more common defensive alignments.

[@MattDiwata]

thanks for posting this! I'm a new spectator to the sport and I've been watching a lot of your videos to learn the game...and I've been searching specifically for the topic of shifting.

[@marekss]

Thank you for the videos. I'm new to baseball

[@SL-pq7rr]

Thank for the videos. I have watched baseball playlist understand more now, but i was wondering why can’t a runner be tagged up when running past first base? I think I have seen it on TV and thought the defenders could tag him up but didn’t. Might have seen wrong.

[@averyplote7148]

It's just one of the rules of baseball, you can run past first base, and as long as you don't turn and make an effort towards second you can't be tagged out. Makes it so runners don't have to slide into first all the time because its faster to just sprint, which is supposed to be safer I believe.

[@SL-pq7rr]

@@averyplote7148 Okay makes sense. Thank you for the Answer!

[@Handles-R-Lame]

Lol now the defensive shift is not allowed in professional baseball.