OK, so I need clarification on this. DD's team played in a one-day double-elimination tournament today. She had to miss the first two games due to a school required function. We arrived a little early for the third game and while the team was still playing the second game.
As we were walking down to the field where the team was playing, we saw the following: Runner slides into home and collides with our catcher. Catcher is down in a heap. She is crying and holding her arm. Long story short: she has to exit the game to go to Urgent Care and DD is suddenly in as catcher for the last half-inning of the game.
Next game starts almost immediately. DD is 4th in the lineup. On the first pitch, the ball hits her left hand (she's a lefty). I can tell it hurts her. She shakes her hand and keeps batting, but by the time she is walked, she is crying. DD is no wimp. She didn't cry at all last year when she broke her left middle finger playing basketball.
She continues to cry and cry. Her left thumb is swelling and there is immediately a bruise or blood blister looking thing under her fingernail. We decide that we've got to go get her X-rayed, so we leave. We felt horrible b/c now both catchers are down for the count. But, we've got to go.
Right after we left, the umps told our coaches that we had to forfeit the game. The reasoning was that we went from 9 to 8 players. You cannot change the number of players that you started the game with. So, essentially, our team was being punished for someone getting injured and having to leave the game.
Seems just of weird and unfair to me. Can anyone explain the reasoning? This was a USSSA A-level tournament, BTW.
As we were walking down to the field where the team was playing, we saw the following: Runner slides into home and collides with our catcher. Catcher is down in a heap. She is crying and holding her arm. Long story short: she has to exit the game to go to Urgent Care and DD is suddenly in as catcher for the last half-inning of the game.
Next game starts almost immediately. DD is 4th in the lineup. On the first pitch, the ball hits her left hand (she's a lefty). I can tell it hurts her. She shakes her hand and keeps batting, but by the time she is walked, she is crying. DD is no wimp. She didn't cry at all last year when she broke her left middle finger playing basketball.
She continues to cry and cry. Her left thumb is swelling and there is immediately a bruise or blood blister looking thing under her fingernail. We decide that we've got to go get her X-rayed, so we leave. We felt horrible b/c now both catchers are down for the count. But, we've got to go.
Right after we left, the umps told our coaches that we had to forfeit the game. The reasoning was that we went from 9 to 8 players. You cannot change the number of players that you started the game with. So, essentially, our team was being punished for someone getting injured and having to leave the game.
Seems just of weird and unfair to me. Can anyone explain the reasoning? This was a USSSA A-level tournament, BTW.