Did you let any passed balls by you? Doesn't sound like it from your description, but I've seen coaches pull tired/hot catchers when that starts to happen and there are base runners.
In the situation you describe you better believe that I am going to run on the relief catcher on one of the first two pitches. Should have seen that one coming.
Did you let any passed balls by you? Doesn't sound like it from your description, but I've seen coaches pull tired/hot catchers when that starts to happen and there are base runners.
I haven't seen many pitchouts in fastpitch softball..are they common?
I'm trying to understand coach's decision during a tournament we played in over the weekend. Here's what happened.
We started this last tournament fairly early in the afternoon on Friday and we played in something like 6 games over the course of the weekend going 4-1 and winning the consolation bracket with this tournament being double elimination. I caught all our games with the exception 2 (I played third in one and the other I played DH for 5 innings and pitched the last two since our pitcher was sick from heat exhaustion).
The last game of the tournament, we play the number 1 seed. Were playing the best game we've played so far. We were kinda cruising along and were winning against the number 1 seed 6 - 4 going into the bottom of the 7th. HC DD1 got the first two batters on strike outs to bring her total to 8 in the game. She ends up walking the next batter in a 10 pitch at bat. I ask for time and walk to the circle to calm the pitcher down and tell her she's got this, let's get nasty. I never saw HC come out to make substitutions. He tells DD 2 to get her catchers gear on. I don't mean to bash my teammates or coaches on a public forum, but his DD 2 is not a very good catcher. She's a great right fielder but she kinda has accuracy issues. I don't think she needs to exactly hit her cutoff person when throwing the ball back in...but at least get the ball where they can catch it. Catcher #2 was sick from the heat and humidity from earlier. Coach tells me to head back to the dugout and that I did good. I really didn't feel tired but he still pulls me. The first pitch to the next batter, the runner on first tries to steal second. The catcher throws the second baseman high and the ball goes into center field and the runner advances to third on the error. The pitcher then walks the next batter on three more pitches. The next batter hits a walkoff 3 run homerun to win the game 7 - 6. I go out and shake all the girls and coaches hands on the other team but I'm still confused as to what coach was thinking.
If your a coach reading this could you give me a little insight on why a coach would pull a catcher in the middle of an inning?
Thanks.
It was a time limit game as we wanted to be done by dark. When I was pulled from the game, it was probably 7:45-8:00 ish. It doesn't start getting hard to see here until about 9:00.OP, was this a time limit game?
I think you'll be best served by asking your coach. You can do it very simply and not in an accusatory tone. Something as simple as, "Coach, I just wanted to ask why you pulled me from the game the other day."
One of my biggest mistakes when I was a younger coach is that I assumed my players were mind readers and that they understood the decisions I was making. Often they didn't and it hurt communication. I found this to be even more of an issue coaching female athletes. As I matured as a coach I did a much better job explaining why I made the decisions I did. While the girls still didn't necessarily agree with my decision, they at least know why I made it.