DD is still in rec so rules are a little more lax during the regular season...
We routinely will make lineups and put girls who aren't there at the bottom..and then mention to the ump/HC that whoever is at the bottom and might not show..
EOS tournament game..
Last nite we put a girl who hadn't shown up by game time at the bottom..
Game goes on and when it was the bottom of the lineup, girl hadn't shown up and we went back to the top of our order.
We probably should have mentioned it to the ump or HC but it's such a normal thing in our league that whoever is scoring will just see that the top is back up and cross the girl off..
(Also when I score and see a problem in the lineup - I will always say something to the ump that the other team should have a certain girl up and or ask as soon as a diff batter is up..)
So our leadoff batter gets on...*then* the person doing book for the other team mentions it to the ump that the last batter didn't bat.
I was doing official book and ump asked me and I said the last batter didn't show so we were back at the top.
Discussion went on and we were given a warning since in EOS rules, we have to declare it - umps realize that in regular season play, it's not usually an issue...Otherwise our girl on 1st should have been out..
Later I heard the person scoring that she thought we were all cheaters.
Would ya'll consider that cheating?
Of course now that we know, we'll be better at letting them know as soon as *we* know if a girl won't be there but IMO, she def waited for our girl to get on base to let the ump know. But I don't think we were trying to cheat at all.
We routinely will make lineups and put girls who aren't there at the bottom..and then mention to the ump/HC that whoever is at the bottom and might not show..
EOS tournament game..
Last nite we put a girl who hadn't shown up by game time at the bottom..
Game goes on and when it was the bottom of the lineup, girl hadn't shown up and we went back to the top of our order.
We probably should have mentioned it to the ump or HC but it's such a normal thing in our league that whoever is scoring will just see that the top is back up and cross the girl off..
(Also when I score and see a problem in the lineup - I will always say something to the ump that the other team should have a certain girl up and or ask as soon as a diff batter is up..)
So our leadoff batter gets on...*then* the person doing book for the other team mentions it to the ump that the last batter didn't bat.
I was doing official book and ump asked me and I said the last batter didn't show so we were back at the top.
Discussion went on and we were given a warning since in EOS rules, we have to declare it - umps realize that in regular season play, it's not usually an issue...Otherwise our girl on 1st should have been out..
Later I heard the person scoring that she thought we were all cheaters.
Would ya'll consider that cheating?
Of course now that we know, we'll be better at letting them know as soon as *we* know if a girl won't be there but IMO, she def waited for our girl to get on base to let the ump know. But I don't think we were trying to cheat at all.