Know your place

[umpire_scott]

Last game of 6 today.  It was 14U pool play A/AA level.  One team we had the game before and they lost getting run ruled 11-3 after 5 innings.  They played a new team I had not seen yet. New team losses the coin toss so they bat first.  They score 4 runs before the HT switches pitchers.  HT gets out of the inning with no further damage.  The HT then proceeds to score 16 runs in the bottom of the first inning.  The first inning took exactly one hour to play.  This team was so overmatched it was silly.  It looked like a rec league team that decided to stay together and play some tournaments.  On one play the bases were loaded and F1 picked of R1.  R1 knew he was dead so he started to run to second.  F3 starts running towards him and has no idea what to do.  He hesitates forever and then finally throws to F6 covering the bag to get the tag on R1.  Problem is that both R3 AND R2 scored in the meantime.  

The only saving grace was that the HT held in the top of the second and then scored 3 runs in the bottom half to reach the 15 run mercy rule at 19-4 and we got to go home early.

[basejester]

On 7/9/2016 at 11:29 PM, umpire_scott said:

Last game of 6 today.  It was 14U pool play A/AA level.  One team we had the game before and they lost getting run ruled 11-3 after 5 innings.  They played a new team I had not seen yet. New team losses the coin toss so they bat first.  They score 4 runs before the HT switches pitchers.  HT gets out of the inning with no further damage.  The HT then proceeds to score 16 runs in the bottom of the first inning.  The first inning took exactly one hour to play.  This team was so overmatched it was silly.  It looked like a rec league team that decided to stay together and play some tournaments.  On one play the bases were loaded and F1 picked of R1.  R1 knew he was dead so he started to run to second.  F3 starts running towards him and has no idea what to do.  He hesitates forever and then finally throws to F6 covering the bag to get the tag on R1.  Problem is that both R3 AND R2 scored in the meantime.  

The only saving grace was that the HT held in the top of the second and then scored 3 runs in the bottom half to reach the 15 run mercy rule at 19-4 and we got to go home early.

2 runs per out = 6 runs per inning.  6 < 16.  Maybe not a bad decision.