Hi everyone, I'm not sure what do do about our pitching lineup....right now the games don't count for anything (aside from stat keeping) so we're just letting the girls who are taking lessons pitch games.
We have one pitcher that can actually strike girls out, while the others might throw strikes here and there. We have parents on our team asked why we don't leave her in instead of rotating her out after one inning. The other teams we play leave their best pitchers in for the max allowed innings, which is think is 2 and moves to 3 soon. This is not my call since I'm not the manager, but given the games don't count I think he's just letting the girls pitch for now.
Right now we coach pitch if they throw 4 balls, but that ends in 2 weeks, at which time games also start to count. I would think we should put our best pitcher in as much as she's comfortable with one inning being too little. The other girls that pitch, including my own daughter, give up runs due to taking the batters to coach pitch. I've already had a discussion with my daughter and told her when the time comes for games to count, she might just not pitch and she said she understands.
In any case, what would be the best way to have our best pitcher in the game? Start first two innings then let the other girls pitch? Start first and finish 3rd or 4th inning? I don't know that we want to keep her in the whole game as to not wear her out, but definitely want to strategize how to keep the opposing teams from scoring.
We have one pitcher that can actually strike girls out, while the others might throw strikes here and there. We have parents on our team asked why we don't leave her in instead of rotating her out after one inning. The other teams we play leave their best pitchers in for the max allowed innings, which is think is 2 and moves to 3 soon. This is not my call since I'm not the manager, but given the games don't count I think he's just letting the girls pitch for now.
Right now we coach pitch if they throw 4 balls, but that ends in 2 weeks, at which time games also start to count. I would think we should put our best pitcher in as much as she's comfortable with one inning being too little. The other girls that pitch, including my own daughter, give up runs due to taking the batters to coach pitch. I've already had a discussion with my daughter and told her when the time comes for games to count, she might just not pitch and she said she understands.
In any case, what would be the best way to have our best pitcher in the game? Start first two innings then let the other girls pitch? Start first and finish 3rd or 4th inning? I don't know that we want to keep her in the whole game as to not wear her out, but definitely want to strategize how to keep the opposing teams from scoring.