Our team is a high C level 12U All-Star team. We played a tournament this weekend and several girls left for camp before the last day of games. We were down to 8 players and 2 pitchers and 1 catcher for the last two games. DD was either catcher or pitcher for all but 1 inning in 3 games on hot day on turf. So we had to use a girl that isn’t a catcher when DD was pitching. In game 2, a few balls got under catcher’s glove and hit the umpire’s shin guards.
In game 3 (Championship), before the bottom of the last inning ump tells our coach that he is getting tired of getting hit by passed balls and that if any more balls get through he’s going to shrink the strike zone for us. He also said “this doesn’t happen in baseball games”. We were up 6-1, when it happened, so our coach decided we could push through. Our coach told the opposing coach, who he is friends with and the guy couldn’t believe the ump would say that.
A couple walks, an error, infield hit and a few WP and passed balls and we are now up by 2 (our pitcher has almost no energy left). Another ball gets past the catcher. Ump comes out in front of home and yells, loud enough for everyone, that we have to replace our catcher. Our coach is pissed, because he knows based on what the ump said prior, that the tables are tilted against us. He decides to pull the girls off the field, because he wants to protect the pitcher and catcher from dealing with a partial ump the rest of the game.
How would you have dealt with an umpire acting this way?
In game 3 (Championship), before the bottom of the last inning ump tells our coach that he is getting tired of getting hit by passed balls and that if any more balls get through he’s going to shrink the strike zone for us. He also said “this doesn’t happen in baseball games”. We were up 6-1, when it happened, so our coach decided we could push through. Our coach told the opposing coach, who he is friends with and the guy couldn’t believe the ump would say that.
A couple walks, an error, infield hit and a few WP and passed balls and we are now up by 2 (our pitcher has almost no energy left). Another ball gets past the catcher. Ump comes out in front of home and yells, loud enough for everyone, that we have to replace our catcher. Our coach is pissed, because he knows based on what the ump said prior, that the tables are tilted against us. He decides to pull the girls off the field, because he wants to protect the pitcher and catcher from dealing with a partial ump the rest of the game.
How would you have dealt with an umpire acting this way?