Physical Distance Between Pitchers And Field Players

Partition is a form of separation defined as “to be divided up into parts,” which this research will use to describe the physical distance between the pitchers and the field players. During practices, the pitchers and field players do warm ups (a combination of stretching out muscles by rolling on foam cylinders, using large rubber bands to stretch arms and throwing weighted balls) and drills in different areas of the field, making sure there is enough room for the other group.
The pitching coach comes over and tells the pitchers that at 4:30pm they are going to pick up all their stuff and move it across the field to start throwing practice. And sure enough it happened and at 4:30 the field players started to set up for a scrimmage and some continued to warm up while the pitchers pick up all of their equipment from one part of the field that they had taken up and went, almost kitty corner, across the field to a corner to make it their own. …The pitchers ran straight across the field and it took me a few seconds to piece together that they were permanently leaving me… [Field notes 3-4]
The physical distance was a range between a few feet to all the way across the field. It seemed like the pitchers were claiming their space, either warming up during the beginning of every practice, in the same place in front of the net opening, or when they set up their pitching mounds in the top left corner of the field. This “claiming” of space was often to get out of the way of the field players because the pitchers were fewer in numbers and could easily move and get out of the way of the mass of field