Sluggers, if I may pick your brain a bit... the question was: "how many pitches I should let my 8 year old throw per game?"
The answer of "BOTTOM LINE: No more than 3 innings per game" seems to need some further splainin'. To be fair, the OP didn't mention how long innings tend to run, if they bat the whole lineup or play to 3 outs (sometimes 15 batters drawing full count walks), etc. Nor is there a mention of number of games per day, weekend, or week, etc.
LL baseball got away from using the number of innings yardstick and went to pitch counts with daily/weekly guidelines that factored in days of rest. I know this is different, but how about pinning a number of pitches?
VW
The answer of "BOTTOM LINE: No more than 3 innings per game" seems to need some further splainin'. To be fair, the OP didn't mention how long innings tend to run, if they bat the whole lineup or play to 3 outs (sometimes 15 batters drawing full count walks), etc. Nor is there a mention of number of games per day, weekend, or week, etc.
LL baseball got away from using the number of innings yardstick and went to pitch counts with daily/weekly guidelines that factored in days of rest. I know this is different, but how about pinning a number of pitches?
VW