In Baseball, when you have a runner on a base, and less than 2 outs, and the hitter hits a very high and long flyball, why does the runner on base not advance to the next base – They Look Like they’re contemplating, but never go even If there is plenty of time?

Question

When the hitter hits the ball high and long for a fly out.
Why does the runner not run to the next base?

In: 2

Answer 1

because they don’t want to risk an outfielder catching the ball, and then they have to run back to their base to “tag up”. if they don’t make it back in time, you just gave the opposing team a double play when it could have just been a single out.