Played a tournament today. It was our last tournament of a not so great season. Only won 4 games in 6 tournaments :/ But our team is a rec turned TB and we have a lot of 12U girls playing up in 14U. Played mostly USSSA against tougher teams.
Our team is notorious for having a lot of good innings and then having one really bad inning that essentially loses it for us. So today we lost our first pool game. Then we were losing our second game 0-1 in the 4th. Somehow even with 2 outs we managed to score 11 runs. Time was already up for the pool game but not by much. We were visitors so the other team still needed to bat.
Runner on third. Ump at 3rd asked our HC if he would have our runner step off to end the inning. Our HC said no..we’ve only won 3 games all season and he wanted them to be able to continue and like I said above, we could have an inning get completely away from us. Instead the ump just called her out when she didn’t even step off. Luckily we only allowed 2 runs and won 11-3 but our HC was pretty mad at the ump.
Should an ump be allowed to do that. I get that you want to get games moving along but that just seems super wrong...
Also, curious about a call on a HBP. If the ball is rolling in the dirt towards home on a bad pitch, should the batter be allowed to just stick her foot out and get hit? Girl did it and the ump awarded her first. Seems a little shady..
Our team is notorious for having a lot of good innings and then having one really bad inning that essentially loses it for us. So today we lost our first pool game. Then we were losing our second game 0-1 in the 4th. Somehow even with 2 outs we managed to score 11 runs. Time was already up for the pool game but not by much. We were visitors so the other team still needed to bat.
Runner on third. Ump at 3rd asked our HC if he would have our runner step off to end the inning. Our HC said no..we’ve only won 3 games all season and he wanted them to be able to continue and like I said above, we could have an inning get completely away from us. Instead the ump just called her out when she didn’t even step off. Luckily we only allowed 2 runs and won 11-3 but our HC was pretty mad at the ump.
Should an ump be allowed to do that. I get that you want to get games moving along but that just seems super wrong...
Also, curious about a call on a HBP. If the ball is rolling in the dirt towards home on a bad pitch, should the batter be allowed to just stick her foot out and get hit? Girl did it and the ump awarded her first. Seems a little shady..