After the clothesline play at first, and with the benefit of super slo-mo, Smith said it was the right call. That may be the dumbest thing every said anywhere. I believe Mowins did call her out on that one though.
This is correct. We subbed in our back-up first baseman for our right-fielder in the lineup. Good bat, but slower than the second-coming of Christ, so we put our DP in the field and put her on the bench.
I don't know if my state allows protests or not I guess. The thought of protest didn't even occur to me until after the game, and in fairness, what transpired had little to do with the outcome of the game in which we were soundly defeated. I think I may contact the state association though...
It's funny you say that. While I was waiting to talk to the ump the second time, their head coach walked by on his way to the coaching box; I asked him "Am I right or am I wrong?" He said "You're right." and kept walking.
I got to thinking about this after last night. We use Iscore and try to be pretty diligent about tracking everything, but yeah, I'm sure many teams aren't. And even using electronics it's pretty hard to verify who is actually out there if they are moving around at all.
I have been considering this. I don't really want to be 'that coach' but the guy just clearly has no handle on even the rudiments of the rule.
Can you answer for me Comp, is there any requirement to notify the ump when you send your DP out on defense? I wonder if that is why this hasn't come...
Thanks for the response Ken. I actually asked him before reading him the rule if he wanted to hear it, but I agree it's generally not a great move.
This was actually the first time we had used DP/Flex. We had already inserted another player into the batting for the right fielder. When we...
Yesterday, high school play in game. We are utilizing DP/Flex.
Second inning, our right fielder becomes ill. We tell the ump we are going to sub for her, but will send our DP out to play in her spot defensively. He says if we do this we will "lose our flex". I ask "Why would we lose our...
Thanks for the prompt reply. This was exactly my issue, that she turned around because she knew she was going to be out, in fact, she was very nearly out returning to 3rd, on a throw FROM OUR CATCHER. There is no way that ump should have thought she would have been safe at home, which I...
The opposition has girls at 2nd and 1st against us. Batter hits to out field. There is a throw home, but girl from 2nd scores. Ball gets by the catcher, pitcher is backing up. Catcher turns to get the ball from the pitcher. She is in the baseline as the runner rounds 3rd, runner comes a...
We have a junior who just returned to our high school team after missing her sophomore season to have a baby. Good kid and was a very good player as a freshman. Had some trepidation wondering how the year off and new responsibilities would affect her. Physically she's great and she's actually...
I don't understand this post; you "don't bother" with LL, don't know the pitching rules, but feel comfortable commenting that their rules are "baseball based (?) and there are a lot of major differences"? This is actually one of the few major differences I can think of where LL seriously...