That's gotta suck...

[LMSANS]

LL-JR playoff, semi-final HT is up 9-1. Bottom 3rd, V F2 gets hit inside the knee with a good shot. I go out & talk to F1 about the weather, while coach takes care of the kid. Kid finishes the inning and is back for bottom 4. H F1 comes up 7 asks "how's the leg?...gotta suck getting hit in the leg like that."

Next pitch hits the batter in the leg. I couldn't help myself, I started laughing and said to the kid "that's gotta suck, huh?" F2 almost fell over laughing.

[mstaylor]

Sometimes players can be very funny, it's what make our job fun.

[Tyennie]

Players aren't the only ones. Amlg game yesterday, close game, I'm PU and mgr visits his pitcher in the 7th (which i dutifully scribble down on the back of the line up card) 3 batters later he comes out again - and chats with his F1, and i thought he was making a change - my BU asks if that was his second visit. Yup,, So i call him over and say "Dave that is your second visit this inning you need to change your pitcher." His non chalant reply - "Whose rule is that" (This guy has been around baseball a loooooonnnnnng time, so he knows) My response was: "Baseball's rule" He shrugged his shoulders and wander back to dugout to make changes.

[umpcoachfather]

Sorry Coach Abner Doubleday invented that one a couple years back.

[ukce1861]

My best player story was a LL Jr. game. Pitcher and catcher are both hispanic and the catcher says something to the pitcher in spanish. The hitter goes, "I know what you said, I speak spanish". Right about that time, the pitcher paints the corner with a fastball that the batter whiffs on for strike 3. Catcher goes, "just cause you know what's coming, doesn't mean you can hit it..." and we all three laughed as he walked back to the dugout.

[Jocko]

Pitcher comes set. F2 rips a fart that echoed off the backstop. I had to stand there to call the pitch. Batter looks at F2 as a 2 seam grroves the outside 3rd of the plate. A real c**kshot. I step wwwaaayyy back and call strike. Called time and waited for the air to clear. F2 walks up laughing and apologizing. Batter is maddernhell.

[KLAH316]

Pitcher comes set. F2 rips a fart that echoed off the backstop. I had to stand there to call the pitch. Batter looks at F2 as a 2 seam grroves the outside 3rd of the plate. A real c**kshot. I step wwwaaayyy back and call strike. Called time and waited for the air to clear. F2 walks up laughing and apologizing. Batter is maddernhell.

Worse is a SBD from F2..... Getting set for the pitch and all of a sudden the smell hits ya!!

[mstaylor]

I just tell them not to start something they can't finish. :)