Howdy taltepper-ga,
The Free Dictionary defines baseball's "second sacker."
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/second%20sacker
"second sacker - (baseball) the person who plays second base"
The Virginia Tech Mathematics Department has an article entitled
"THE ELUSIVE MISTER DIGGS" by Ezra Brown that defines the term
"battery mates" which is also spelled "batterymates" as well
as hyphenated as shown below as "battery-mates."
http://www.math.vt.edu/people/brown/Diggs/elusive.html
"From the 1913 and 1914 Bugles, we learned that Edward and Charles
were both Privates in Company A of the VPI Corps of Cadets for two
years. They were also both on the VPI Baseball Team as a pitcher
and a catcher. From other sources, we know that Edward was the
pitcher, and so Charles was the catcher--to use the baseball
expression, they were battery-mates."
The Baseball Factory's web site defines "pop to pop time" for us.
http://www.baseballfactory.com/downloads/news/10-15/101502-3.html
"Catcher's Release Time: the amount of time it takes for the
ball to get from the catcher's glove (pop of the mitt) to the
infielder's glove (pop of the mitt) covering 2B on a throw from
home plate to 2B. This is often refered to as 'pop-to-pop' time."
So, the "second sacker" or second base player is part of the
formula for figuring out the "pop to pop time" and one of the
"battery mates" or the catcher is the other part of that formula.
Since the other "battery mate" (the pitcher) is often right
between the catcher and the "second sacker" he needs to know how
much time there is to get out of the way of the ball.
As the Baseball Factory's article goes on to explain, the pitcher
doesn't have much time at all, and the catcher/second base player
had better be pretty quick on those "twin killings" (double plays.)
"I am often asked about the ideal release time (or pop time) for
a catcher. Most people would expect to hear an answer such as 1.85
seconds, or anything under 2.0 seconds. In reality the ideal
Release Time for a catcher is based on the Pitcher's Release Time
and the runner's Steal Time - and in most cases the answer ends up
being around 2.1 seconds on the bag."
Also, if you make the phrase "second sacker" into "second sackers"
in your question, making it "why should second sackers and battery
mates be interested in 'pop to pop time'" you have a phrase that
would be a "googlewhack" (a two word combination that when searched
for within Google produces one, and only one result) if phrases that
were longer than two words were eligible to be googlewhacks.
Just part of your phrase (second sackers and battery mates) works too.
://www.google.com/search?q=%22second+sackers+and+battery+mates%22
The above search gives the one hit of this web site that has message
bases for discussing Shakespeare, but you might have already known that.
http://www.shakespeare.com/queries/display.php?id=3672
For more on googlewacks, there is a web site dedicated to them, the
naturally named Googlewack.com.
http://www.googlewhack.com/
If you need clarification, feel free to ask.
For more information, here are some search strategies:
Google search on: "second sacker"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22second+sacker%22
Google search on: "battery mates" baseball
://www.google.com/search?q=%22battery+mates%22+baseball
Google search on: "pop to pop time"
://www.google.com/search?q=%22pop+to+pop+time%22
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