Pitching change

coachbubbles · Jun 11, 2017

ASA tournament. Bottom 5th. We are visitors and up 4 runs. Time expired. Pitcher hits first batter. I call time - run out to calm her down - 1st mound visit of the game. K's the next 2. Walks the next. Mound visit #2. Other team whines and blue makes me change pitchers citing 2nd mound visit of the inning. According to my ASA rulebook I get 3 in a game before I have to change. What say the experts? (I believe NSA is 2nd visit).

Comp · Jun 11, 2017

Umpire that doesnt know the rules. You get 3 defensive conferences in a 7 inning game, and you can take all 3 in the same inning if you like. You can actually take more than that, you just have to change pitchers if you take more than 3 and the pitcher that was removed is no longer eligible to pitch the rest of the game. If the game goes longer than 7 innings, you get 1 defensive conference per inning, and they are not cumulative. If you do not use any of your conferences during the first 7 innings, they do not carry over to extra innings.

By the way, there is no mound in softball.

coachbubbles · Jun 11, 2017

Thanks. Thats what I read too. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't some obscure "but if" I didn't know about. DOH - circle. Still working on removing all that old baseball language from my brain. Thanks!

coachbubbles · Jun 11, 2017

So given this language is there any circumstance that would allow me to pull a pitcher and put her back in later? Aside from starting an inning with a new pitcher?

KCPhoto · Jun 11, 2017

coachbubbles said:
So given this language is there any circumstance that would allow me to pull a pitcher and put her back in later? Aside from starting an inning with a new pitcher?

Change your pitcher any time before the 4th circle visit and you can put her back in anytime.

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quincy · Jun 12, 2017

You were caught up in baseball rules.

Confuses people and coaches at younger ages but umpire should know better.

Sparky Guy · Jun 12, 2017

KCPhoto said:
Change your pitcher any time before the 4th circle visit and you can put her back in anytime.

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Can't put her back in during the same inning.

Sparky Guy · Jun 12, 2017

Comp said:
Umpire that doesnt know the rules. You get 3 defensive conferences in a 7 inning game, and you can take all 3 in the same inning if you like. You can actually take more than that, you just have to change pitchers if you take more than 3 and the pitcher that was removed is no longer eligible to pitch the rest of the game. If the game goes longer than 7 innings, you get 1 defensive conference per inning, and they are not cumulative. If you do not use any of your conferences during the first 7 innings, they do not carry over to extra innings.

By the way, there is no mound in softball.

To the best of your knowledge, is it the same in Fed and all the other major alphabets?

riseball · Jun 12, 2017

Sparky Guy said:
Can't put her back in during the same inning.

You most certainly can.

BretMan · Jun 12, 2017

Sparky Guy said:
To the best of your knowledge, is it the same in Fed and all the other major alphabets?

Same for FED, with respect to the number of conferences, etc.

Different for NCAA!

As far as pitcher's returning to pitch, in FED they can once per inning. For USA there is no limit.

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