- Feb 7, 2013
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Bchbum54 and Rocketech1,
I've seen a coach burn time by substituting the catcher. They only had one set of equipment, so it ate a good 5 or 8 minutes for one catcher to get the gear off and the new catcher to get it on.
I don't like that but about 20 minutes before no new inning some coaches will either start slowing the game down such as no big hurry to warm-up between innings, an occasional conference with the pitcher, etc. or speed it up if behind in the game.
The only time I ever felt somewhat bad about using the clock to my advantage was when I had my baserunner leave base early and the batter purposefully strikeout so that the inning would be complete and not revert back to the previous inning when we were losing. That win gave us the #1 seeding and we ended up winning the tournament.
Again, I don't like timed games but if you are a coach you need to consider time management as one of many factors during the game.