- Mar 7, 2016
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This past weekend during upper flight bracket play, top of last inning down 3-2 with 6 minutes remaining, two down nobody on bottom of our order. We were visitors. (yes we put ourselves in this position, with an error that gave up 2 runs that is on me to work on later). The opposing coach makes a pitching change in the slowest possible way one can imagine. Then immediately follows that up with a "defensive positional change" where he instructs his left fielder to unlace and relace her shoes. My girls are ready to go. Batter line drives out to short.
He instructs his team to walk off the field, our girls are sprinting to positions, He holds a team meeting on the field and the ump instructs me he has 60 secs in between innings. He calls time to talk to his batter, and instructs her to take every single pitching with a fake bunt. His delays ran off almost 5 minutes of clock time when there was no ball in play and was allowed. After the game as we are leaving my assistant coach is a few strides behind the blues and over hears the plate ump say and i quote "you can bet if the shoe was on the other foot they would have no problem doing the same exact thing" to which my loudmouth assistant ( i will address this later) fires off "no our teams comes to play ball not pull that busch league crap that you just allowed) and the ump replies "you dont even know what the hell we are talking about brother" and that is when i pulled him away knowing we can and will see them at a later time.
now aside from the "dont be in that situation to begin with" comments and the drama from my own team what are the actual rules here? UTRIP and what are your views as a coach on pulling this.
He instructs his team to walk off the field, our girls are sprinting to positions, He holds a team meeting on the field and the ump instructs me he has 60 secs in between innings. He calls time to talk to his batter, and instructs her to take every single pitching with a fake bunt. His delays ran off almost 5 minutes of clock time when there was no ball in play and was allowed. After the game as we are leaving my assistant coach is a few strides behind the blues and over hears the plate ump say and i quote "you can bet if the shoe was on the other foot they would have no problem doing the same exact thing" to which my loudmouth assistant ( i will address this later) fires off "no our teams comes to play ball not pull that busch league crap that you just allowed) and the ump replies "you dont even know what the hell we are talking about brother" and that is when i pulled him away knowing we can and will see them at a later time.
now aside from the "dont be in that situation to begin with" comments and the drama from my own team what are the actual rules here? UTRIP and what are your views as a coach on pulling this.