I think Coach Hammond (the losing coach) probably stretched the truth a bit about the base stealing in the 5th. I mean, look at the number of walks and errors his own team had. The winning coach did the right thing telling his girls to hold on passed balls, etc.

I've seen the same thing happen in other sports. Had a buddy that did an 8-man football game that ended 60-0 at the half. The winning team was to the point of returning every punt back for touchdowns and their coach realized that their defense was keeping the opponents pinned back to the end zone, so he told the returner to call for a fair catch. Next thing they knew, their own offense would score on the first play from scrimmage. So, coach changed his strategy again. Free kick after each fair catch. The kicker got a nice number of free kick field goals that night. My buddy said he'd never seen anything like it before.