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Boy this discussion happened at a perfect time for me. I am UIC of a small ASA rec legue. We had an issue earlier this week in 10U where this exact thing happened a 10yo with decent speed for 10 was wild and hit a few girls (depends on who you talk to my PU told me 5-6 in the 3 innings she pitched, other team hit 2 but much slower coaches remeber 10-12 of course no one wrote it correctly in the official book so it's all memory) Anyway I have been approached by SEVERAL coaches and parents, as well as our board president, about what we are going to do about this. My answer was simple we tried a few years ago to put a league rule in like someone else mentioned here 3 in an inning 4 in a game and everyone threw a fit!! But I do feel for these people, some of them have 8 year olds that just came out of coaches pitch and they are scared to death of the "wild speed demon" and don't want to even bat. Add whining parents on top of that are threatening to take their children and leave if she starts hitting players again and it gets ugly fast! I see both sides of it, coaches should pull someone who risks hurting someone, is it a safety concern who knows? We could argue that you could break a rib with a good speed pitch. I know one thing you could scare a kid right out of playing ball again! But I also don't like to force a coach to pull a player unless it is absolutely necessary, and supported by the rules. The problem is I don't think we will ever get a hard fast rule from a governing body to enforce on this topic, I may be wrong but I see it as another judgement thing that is hard to enforce without taking crap from someone!!!
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