Dugout player spacing for games?

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Oct 4, 2018
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At the facility we are currently playing at, when your team enters the gates, they give you three game balls. You only use them when you are on defense. Your team has to chase down any foul balls and get a new one to the pitcher. Umpires do not touch them. Opponent does not touch them.

The other org we have been playing at does not do this. They want you to sanitize the balls as they cycle through the dugout, though I have not seen this done much at all.

IMHO, the risk of Covid is much more in breath/coughs/yelling than on surfaces. I'll all for each defensive team using their own balls, but wiping down balls seems overkill with what we know now.
 
Aug 25, 2019
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The first tournament I umpired in all this, we were wiping balls, never did it again. That is nonsense.
 
Feb 3, 2016
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For 2020. Just like OK.

Other than using separate softballs (each team using own ball ect..) No after the game hand shakes.
No other precautions besides hand sanitizer before and after the game.

Masks were optional for players based off of parents wishes. Avoided states/towns with cluster breakouts. Kids on the roster didn't really see anyone outside the team. Kids have been punished enough for 2020.

Infection survivability ratio if infected.
0-19 = 99.99997%
20-49 = 99.9998%
50-69 = 99.995%
70+ = 99.946%
Calculated from CDC websites fatality ratio.

2020 - To date the Flu has killed more children than covid 0-24 years old. FACT.

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Aug 1, 2019
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Playing like normal only difference is mask in the dugout no distancing all coaches allowed in dugout some umpires are behind pitchers some not it's there choice.
 
Oct 4, 2018
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For 2020. Just like OK.

Other than using separate softballs (each team using own ball ect..) No after the game hand shakes.
No other precautions besides hand sanitizer before and after the game.

Masks were optional for players based off of parents wishes. Avoided states/towns with cluster breakouts. Kids on the roster didn't really see anyone outside the team. Kids have been punished enough for 2020.

Infection survivability ratio if infected.
0-19 = 99.99997%
20-49 = 99.9998%
50-69 = 99.995%
70+ = 99.946%
Calculated from CDC websites fatality ratio.

2020 - To date the Flu has killed more children than covid 0-24 years old. FACT.

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4% death rate for those who get it. That of course means a 96% survival rate.

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Feb 3, 2016
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4% death rate for those who get it. That of course means a 96% survival rate.

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Above is old outdated info. Numbers have been corrected by the CDC. The data posted is from within the last two weeks from the CDC website.

If contracted

0-19 = 99.99997% survivability / .00003% of dying
20-49 = 99.9998% / .0002%
50-69 = 99.995% / .005%
70+ = 99.946% / .054%

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Oct 4, 2018
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No use discussing with science deniers, but of course those numbers are valid and current. Over 5,000,000 have gotten Covid in the United states and over 200,000 have died from it. Simple math results in a 96% survival rate.
 
May 1, 2018
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Texas.....During summer we were spreading out and making sure everyone used Sanitizer a lot....now almost nothing. Between practicing and between games its hard to keep 12 12u players away from each other.
 
Mar 6, 2016
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So..thoughts on spacing in the dugout. We've not seen one team spread out and place kids outside dugout and ours have been spaced out for warm ups and practices but games are tough. Parents were in stands, kids were in dugout...the coaches stayed outside of dugout on field.

But now there is one parent that is "encouraging" us to spread all players out and only have 4 in the dugout at one time from now on. Other parents dont want their girls behind dugout or sitting in "isolation". So now we have parents pissed at each other.

What would you do?
 
Apr 20, 2018
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SoCal
So..thoughts on spacing in the dugout. We've not seen one team spread out and place kids outside dugout and ours have been spaced out for warm ups and practices but games are tough. Parents were in stands, kids were in dugout...the coaches stayed outside of dugout on field.

But now there is one parent that is "encouraging" us to spread all players out and only have 4 in the dugout at one time from now on. Other parents dont want their girls behind dugout or sitting in "isolation". So now we have parents pissed at each other.

What would you do?
Tough spot. Think you are going to have to very politely explain to the "spread out parent" that the team as a whole is comfortable with all girls in the dugout and that's the way we are going to do it. Might lose a player but oh well.
 

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