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Above all, it did not consider whether respiratory droplets from its imaginary runner contained coronavirus and so cannot tell us whether running or walking closely behind someone increases your risk of being exposed to dangerous germs, only that it increases your risk of being exposed to someone else’s breath.

Turner laced a line drive to right field behind the imaginary runner.

Ward called the same situation a few moments later, and Turner bounded a ground ball to second to move the imaginary runner to third.

Rather than walking up to the mound and just faking a throw, they paused, pretended to stare down an imaginary runner, held the imaginary ball for 3-4 seconds and mimicked a complete follow-through.

Some were knocking out flies and fierce ground balls to the fielders; while the catcher varied the monotony of things by sending down speedy balls to second to catch an imaginary runner from first, after which Julius Hobson or Owen Dugdale would start the ball around the circuit like lightning before it reached the hand of the batter again.