- May 29, 2015
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Since this seems to be the current catch-all thread for time limit issues ...
Championship game, same rules apply that applied all weekend, including the time limit (1:45), still apply. Nothing is different. Nothing has changed. This was confirmed in advance and re-iterated at the plate meeting.
Home team was up 6-3. We go into the 5th inning with less than 10 minutes on the clock. Coaches were informed it would probably be the last inning.
Home team is playing a bit slow, but nothing egregious, as the visiting team was not hustling at all either. They were playing as they should have: this is the last inning, focus and don't worry about the clock.
The clock expiring was announced. Visiting team mounts a bit of a comeback. They load the bases, end up with two outs, and the home team makes a pitching change as the clock expires. All told, we played 20 minutes past the clock expiration as the visiting team scores 2, making it a 6-5 ballgame, before they pop one up on the infield for the final out (leaving the bases loaded).
It was one heck of a game!
As we are exiting the field, what do we hear from the parents? "That is ----ing bull----!" "That's terrible!" "We only got to play five innings!" "This is ----ing stupid!" "WE WERE CHEATED!"
Want to play more than 5 innings in 2 hours? That pace starts at the beginning of the game and continues all the way through ... not after you start to make a comeback after laying down for 4 innings. Was it anything to actually do with the time or the amount of the game that was played? No. It was about the fact that they wasted opportunities and were mad about it because they started to get a taste of winning. That's our fault.
Championship game, same rules apply that applied all weekend, including the time limit (1:45), still apply. Nothing is different. Nothing has changed. This was confirmed in advance and re-iterated at the plate meeting.
Home team was up 6-3. We go into the 5th inning with less than 10 minutes on the clock. Coaches were informed it would probably be the last inning.
Home team is playing a bit slow, but nothing egregious, as the visiting team was not hustling at all either. They were playing as they should have: this is the last inning, focus and don't worry about the clock.
The clock expiring was announced. Visiting team mounts a bit of a comeback. They load the bases, end up with two outs, and the home team makes a pitching change as the clock expires. All told, we played 20 minutes past the clock expiration as the visiting team scores 2, making it a 6-5 ballgame, before they pop one up on the infield for the final out (leaving the bases loaded).
It was one heck of a game!
As we are exiting the field, what do we hear from the parents? "That is ----ing bull----!" "That's terrible!" "We only got to play five innings!" "This is ----ing stupid!" "WE WERE CHEATED!"
Want to play more than 5 innings in 2 hours? That pace starts at the beginning of the game and continues all the way through ... not after you start to make a comeback after laying down for 4 innings. Was it anything to actually do with the time or the amount of the game that was played? No. It was about the fact that they wasted opportunities and were mad about it because they started to get a taste of winning. That's our fault.