Played in a game last night where the following happened:
9th batter comes up and gets a hit. They replace her with another player. When I check to see who it was to score it, I noticed that she was coming up to bat as the 3rd batter. I asked to see if they had another runner with the same number. We asked, and they said - no that's the right number. Also the batter she replaced was not a pitcher or catcher. The girl makes it to third but then she comes up in the batting order. They replace her on 3rd with the original batter and the pinch runner comes up to bat?
I was extremely confused at this point. But they said - oh the coach indicated she was EH? Is this an actual rule? We have some slower runners on our team that we'd love to have a faster runner run for. So what's to stop us if that's an actual rule - just put your fastest runner as an EH and you're allowed to just replace whoever you want?
What was weird is she was also the pitcher.
9th batter comes up and gets a hit. They replace her with another player. When I check to see who it was to score it, I noticed that she was coming up to bat as the 3rd batter. I asked to see if they had another runner with the same number. We asked, and they said - no that's the right number. Also the batter she replaced was not a pitcher or catcher. The girl makes it to third but then she comes up in the batting order. They replace her on 3rd with the original batter and the pinch runner comes up to bat?
I was extremely confused at this point. But they said - oh the coach indicated she was EH? Is this an actual rule? We have some slower runners on our team that we'd love to have a faster runner run for. So what's to stop us if that's an actual rule - just put your fastest runner as an EH and you're allowed to just replace whoever you want?
What was weird is she was also the pitcher.