Agree that it was good she got everyone in.
As someone else mentioned, not being there makes it hard to "judge". Especially with GC, where the scorekeeper might be crediting a SB for every WP or PB, whether the player was running on the pitch or not.
Is this the same team where the coaches Dad was supposed to be a lot more involved at the start of the season (to support the inexperienced HC), or am I confusing this scenario with another thread?
Yep, I agree, if she was a new coach, she it probably never crossed her mind to end the inning, let alone step off the bag. A few years ago, a team was pounding DD"s team 21-0 in first inning, when it finally ended, the opposite coach honestly said "I didn't know what to do"I'm guessing this had more to do with your coach's lack of experience than anything else.
DD was in a very similar situation during MS. She was playing a team whose starting pitcher was hurt and their backup could barely throw a strike. When she did throw one, it got hit hard. Girls were advancing on wild pitches left and right. We were up 18-0 very quickly in the first. I knew the opposing coach and she kept looking at me begging for it to stop. DD's coach was a good guy but he had no experience coaching softball. I eventually got his attention from the fence and told him to have girls step off. He looked at me like I had two heads. He had never seen that before and didn't think about doing something like that. We were able to end the inning by having a couple of girls bunt for an out. I explained the step off thing to him after that inning.
When I have been in that situation before I have followed these steps. The first thing I do is stop sending girls home on passed balls/wild pitches. Next is to stop running on them at all. If we are still hitting or walking in runs, I will let the ump know we are stepping off and do so. I absolutely hate having girls swing at bad pitches on purpose. I used to stop girls at one base on hits but I don't like doing that either. I want them to be aggressive and play like they would any other game on balls in play.
But why not just quit stealing bases and running up the score? Like I said, the score did not matter. Our old coach would have stopped attempting to score once we'd hit the run rule number (maybe the run rule number plus one insurance run). We went way past that. Am I the only one who thinks our coach's decision was kind of bush league?