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The best time management I have ever seen occured three years ago in a 16-U Metro championship tourney. Home team down by 3 going into the bottom of the inning. 8 minutes left at the end of the top half of the inning. Defense took their 1 minute warmup. 7 minutes left. First batter strikes out. 6 minutes left. Defense calls time, changes pitcher. Takes her 5 warm up pitches. A little more than 5 minutes left. Count goes to 3-2. Pitcher taking her time between pitches, but well within the time allotted to pitch. Batter walks. Again, defensive coach calls time, changes pitchers again. Takes her 5 warm up pitches. Approximately 2 1/2 minutes left. On the first pitch, batter pops out to F2. 2 outs. Pitcher throws 2 balls in the dirt, runner advances to second. Defensive coach calls time, walks to the mound, I give him about 20 seconds, walk out to break it up, he puts starting pitcher back in. No warm up given. Another ball in the dirt. Next pitch high, ball 4. Next pitch was rise ball, ball 1. Same pitch again, ball 2. My timer buzzes letting me know time has expired. I let both sides know time had expired. Next comes three blazing fastballs, strikes out batter, game over. Of course I failed to mention all the stalling comments coming from the offensive dugout during the pitching changes.
It could have easily worked against the defensive coach, but to me it was great game clock management.
[Edited by heyblue on Jul 15th, 2004 at 02:02 AM]
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