At DD's game this week, they had some drama related to a IF ruling.
DD's team is up 9-4 against a team that we are expecting to beat.
Top of the 4th, bases are loaded with 1 out.
Batter hits a pop fly towards 1st base. 1st basemen tries to catch it but drops it. Ump calls IF so batter is out. Because the girl dropped it, our girls take off running. Girl on 3rd gets home. Girl on 2nd goes to 3rd (eventually scores) and girl on 1st starts running to 2nd. 1st basemen throws to SS at 2nd and the girl just steps on the base. It's not a force play so our girl gets to 2nd and she should be safe since she never got tagged.
Tons of confusion happened because I'm guessing everyone thought they needed to tag up or it was a force. The team assumes they've gotten a double play and run off and our girl goes back to the dugout.
Umps and coaches talk for a while...
Finally they bring the girl back out to stand on second and their defense comes back out.
The runs count and we proceeded to get another 3 runs on the 2 outs.
For the next inning or so, one of the parents from the other team is complaining to the tournament director behind us. I get complaining about something like that if the score is close and those runs could decide the game but when we ended up winning 17-5, it's not really worth it.
DH says that we should have left our girl on 2nd and not walked off in order for it to even matter and that since both teams walked off, it should have been over.
Thoughts? I was having a lot of trouble scoring it with GC as well..
Honestly it made what was a very boring game a little more exciting (their pitchers walked our girls 14 times)
DD's team is up 9-4 against a team that we are expecting to beat.
Top of the 4th, bases are loaded with 1 out.
Batter hits a pop fly towards 1st base. 1st basemen tries to catch it but drops it. Ump calls IF so batter is out. Because the girl dropped it, our girls take off running. Girl on 3rd gets home. Girl on 2nd goes to 3rd (eventually scores) and girl on 1st starts running to 2nd. 1st basemen throws to SS at 2nd and the girl just steps on the base. It's not a force play so our girl gets to 2nd and she should be safe since she never got tagged.
Tons of confusion happened because I'm guessing everyone thought they needed to tag up or it was a force. The team assumes they've gotten a double play and run off and our girl goes back to the dugout.
Umps and coaches talk for a while...
Finally they bring the girl back out to stand on second and their defense comes back out.
The runs count and we proceeded to get another 3 runs on the 2 outs.
For the next inning or so, one of the parents from the other team is complaining to the tournament director behind us. I get complaining about something like that if the score is close and those runs could decide the game but when we ended up winning 17-5, it's not really worth it.
DH says that we should have left our girl on 2nd and not walked off in order for it to even matter and that since both teams walked off, it should have been over.
Thoughts? I was having a lot of trouble scoring it with GC as well..
Honestly it made what was a very boring game a little more exciting (their pitchers walked our girls 14 times)