pitcher

[Guest rich]

starting pitcher throws 53 pitches, is moved to short stop, Can he come back in to pitch ?

[Thunderheads]

starting pitcher throws 53 pitches, is moved to short stop, Can he come back in to pitch ?

what rule set?

[Guest Guest]

11yr 12 yr little league

[th3]

no

[MadMax]

As soon as you say "Little League", which monitors pitch counts like the CDC monitors viral infections, then "No" would be the answer.

 

Worth discussing on this topic, though, is that OBR has a little-known-to-the-general-public quirk to it - a pitcher can leave the mound and take the role of any of the eight other field positions, and subsequently resume pitching again, provided he/she has not been substituted for and left the field.

 

I have seen it done with teams alternating two stud throwers -- one lefty, one righty. The RHP starts pitching, grinds out two right-handed batters, a lefty is the next hitter up, and the RHP trots over to F3, who, being left-handed trots onto the mound to become the LHP to face the left-handed batter. That at-bat ends, and the RHP can resume pitching again.

 

The Majors and Minors have gotten to be so specialized in roles that teams wouldn't dare do this in the modern age – there are stories of it occurring in the classic age.

 

I'm unsure as to the specifics of NHFS / Fed regarding this, but my estimate is that it handles it something similar. Instead of pitch counts being monitored (I swear, Williamsport looks like a deli counter with that red counter board above the dugouts "Now Pitching 42" ), innings pitched (more accurately, outs pitched) are monitored and a pitcher is allowed 4 innings / 12 outs (specific number depends on the league / tournament / etc.). Thus, conceivably, a pitcher-fielder swap like this could still occur.

[Rich Ives]

As soon as you say "Little League", which monitors pitch counts like the CDC monitors viral infections, then "No" would be the answer.

 

Doesn't have anything to do with pitch counts. In LL majors and below a pitcher cannot return - period.

[noumpere]

 

Worth discussing on this topic, though, is that OBR has a little-known-to-the-general-public quirk to it - a pitcher can leave the mound and take the role of any of the eight other field positions, and subsequently resume pitching again, provided he/she has not been substituted for and left the field.

 

Not always and as rich says not relevant to this discussion.

[VAUmp]

Lou Pinella did it for the Cubs a few years ago.  He took out Soriano (LF) and moved Sean Marshall there for one batter (a right hander), he then brought Marshall back into pitch to a Lefty.  

[Larry in TN]

Little League rule VI - PITCHERS:  

 

"(b) A pitcher once removed from the mound cannot return as a pitcher.  Intermediate (50-70) division, Junior, Senior and Big League Divisions only: A pitcher remaining in the game, but moving to a different position, can return as a pitcher anytime in the remainder of the game, but only once per game."

 

Page 37 in the 2013 rule book, page 40 in the 2014 book.

[th3]

no

[Guest Bart Mace]

^{Also remember that a pitcher cannot throw more than 40 pitches and be moved to catcher in Little League baseball.}

[SJA]

41 or more pitches.

:-)

[ALStripes17]

41 or more pitches.

:-)

Is it possible to throw 40.5?

[FlaUmp22]

 

41 or more pitches.

:-)

Is it possible to throw 40.5?

 

 

Yep, start/stop balk

[SoCal Lurker]

 

As soon as you say "Little League", which monitors pitch counts like the CDC monitors viral infections, then "No" would be the answer.

 

Doesn't have anything to do with pitch counts. In LL majors and below a pitcher cannot return - period.

 

 

And thank God for that . . . some of those mini-managers would be so into those types of games, especially with pitch counts . . . no reason to let the stud pitcher "waste" four pitches on an intentional walk, swap him out, then swap him back in . . . my head hurts thinking of how some of the LL managers I've seen might use that . . .