Here are the rules the tournament sent out for the ending of the games-
Saturday game time limits:
No inning can start after 1 hour and 15 minutes
Once an inning starts, it must be played to completion or if Hard Stop Time at 1 hour and 30 minutes happens first (games may end in a tie). Score reverts back to previous inning unless home team has taken the lead.
No surprise there.
So my DDs' team is the home team. They take a one run lead and the inning ends at 1 hour and 15 minutes. Our HC calls out to the umpire that the time is 1 hour and 15 minutes since the start of the game. He declares the game over. The HC of the other team starts complaining, first saying, "who is keeping the official time, I don't know who is keeping the time?" The ump tells her he is keeping the time, which I thought was obvious. Then she continues to complain, but I don't know what is being said. A moment later the ump turns to our HC and says that because one of our players was hurt two innings earlier, and delayed the game for a few minutes, he was going to give the other team an extra minute to start the next inning. The player on our team hurt was the #4 batter, who left the game and did not return. Seems hard to say that was a delaying tactic.
Extra time due to injury in a time limit tournament game? Is this a real thing I did not know about?
BTW, the end result, the other team got up, scored two runs, but our team got up and kept the inning going until the 1 hour and 30 minute mark was reached. The ump finally declared the game over and the score reverted.
Saturday game time limits:
No inning can start after 1 hour and 15 minutes
Once an inning starts, it must be played to completion or if Hard Stop Time at 1 hour and 30 minutes happens first (games may end in a tie). Score reverts back to previous inning unless home team has taken the lead.
No surprise there.
So my DDs' team is the home team. They take a one run lead and the inning ends at 1 hour and 15 minutes. Our HC calls out to the umpire that the time is 1 hour and 15 minutes since the start of the game. He declares the game over. The HC of the other team starts complaining, first saying, "who is keeping the official time, I don't know who is keeping the time?" The ump tells her he is keeping the time, which I thought was obvious. Then she continues to complain, but I don't know what is being said. A moment later the ump turns to our HC and says that because one of our players was hurt two innings earlier, and delayed the game for a few minutes, he was going to give the other team an extra minute to start the next inning. The player on our team hurt was the #4 batter, who left the game and did not return. Seems hard to say that was a delaying tactic.
Extra time due to injury in a time limit tournament game? Is this a real thing I did not know about?
BTW, the end result, the other team got up, scored two runs, but our team got up and kept the inning going until the 1 hour and 30 minute mark was reached. The ump finally declared the game over and the score reverted.
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