4th grade rec ball, but may be applicable as well to tournament pool play. 1st spring season of kid pitch, so games have come to screeching halt (3rd grade coach pitch we were able to get in 5, maybe 6 innings - now it's 3, MAYBE 4).
80 mins no new inning (NNI), 95 drop dead (DD). 4 run max per inning.
Home team is winning and at bat when clock hits NNI. If in pool play, this is usually treated the same way as DD - games over since home team is already winning. But for rec games, I don't see many situations where we'd want to immediately stop play, and not let the girls finish the inning. My question is what score do you report? Run differential may be factor in the final standings - so if the home team keeps scoring (5-3 @ NNI, but 7-3 by end of the inning), do you just report it as 5-3 or 7-3?
If the home team is losing, NNI is reached, and then scores the go-ahead, do you treat the go-ahead run as the winning run, or play out the inning?
It's not like the girls are really "giving up", b/c they're not really aware of the NNI concept, and there's times where we're clearly over the limit, but will let the Away team bat when we've only gotten through 3 innings (and there's not a game after ours). And this really is more theoretical discussion of what we "should" be doing vs. what we actually end up doing (I had 7-3, you only had 6-3? Go ahead and use 6-3 then, I may have missed something in the 1st inning walk-fest...).
Having written all this - I guess the "correct" ruling would be to record the score at the time NNI is reached (if Home team is ahead), but curious what the rest of you are doing.
Thanks in advance for any replies.
80 mins no new inning (NNI), 95 drop dead (DD). 4 run max per inning.
Home team is winning and at bat when clock hits NNI. If in pool play, this is usually treated the same way as DD - games over since home team is already winning. But for rec games, I don't see many situations where we'd want to immediately stop play, and not let the girls finish the inning. My question is what score do you report? Run differential may be factor in the final standings - so if the home team keeps scoring (5-3 @ NNI, but 7-3 by end of the inning), do you just report it as 5-3 or 7-3?
If the home team is losing, NNI is reached, and then scores the go-ahead, do you treat the go-ahead run as the winning run, or play out the inning?
It's not like the girls are really "giving up", b/c they're not really aware of the NNI concept, and there's times where we're clearly over the limit, but will let the Away team bat when we've only gotten through 3 innings (and there's not a game after ours). And this really is more theoretical discussion of what we "should" be doing vs. what we actually end up doing (I had 7-3, you only had 6-3? Go ahead and use 6-3 then, I may have missed something in the 1st inning walk-fest...).
Having written all this - I guess the "correct" ruling would be to record the score at the time NNI is reached (if Home team is ahead), but curious what the rest of you are doing.
Thanks in advance for any replies.