Jim Abbott (ANA) fields a grounder and then tags out Brian Harper between second and third (4/13/90)

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00:00Larkin bounced out the joiner

00:02unassisted his first time up.

00:03He'd like another one of those.

00:08Back to Abbott.

00:09He's got him trapped.

00:11And he does it well by running

00:12him right towards the runner.

00:14And he's running him back to the

00:15base he came from and makes the

00:17tag unassisted.

00:18That is real good training.

00:20That is being brought up right.

00:23The fewer men to handle the ball

00:25the better to play and Abbott

00:27really did that well.

00:28I must say that Larkin played

00:30it well too.

00:31He didn't become a spectator at

00:32first base he just kept right on

00:34going right here.

00:35The thing the pitcher has to do

00:38get the ball look at the man at

00:40second base and then throw to

00:41first if he's not going anywhere.

00:43But now once Abbott sees he's

00:45going he gets between the third

00:46base bag and the runner to run

00:48him back to the base and from

00:50which he came and that was the

00:52proper thing to do.

00:53In fact everybody executed

00:54perfectly.