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Originally Posted by aceholleran
Did anyone see the total mixup of the SPR flap in the sixth inning of the OR/MO game?
I think it took 5 minutes to sort out what should have happened in 10 seconds.
In short, OR had used a SPR in top isix. They tried to use another. It's a simple call: a team can only invoke SPR once per inning. Sub actually ran to 1B and was standing there. Eventually, he was recalled and original B/R was placed back on first.
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That's not what happened, Ace. What happened is what CoachTex said - a player in the lineup batted and scored. The manager wanted to then remove him from the lineup (in the 9 hole) and have him SPR for the runner who had just reached base. It was not a second SPR, it was a first SPR. The LLWS scorer, just as he had done the previous day when another manager tried the same maneuver, prohibited it.
Here's the problem - there is no Little League rule, and no published interpretation, that prohibits the maneuver. Many people, including most of the officials in the Eastern Region, want to layer in their interpretation of the NFHS "projected substitution" rule to prohibit making an offensive substitution when that particular slot in the order is not at bat at that moment. This, however, is a ruling that is being pulled right out from the nether regions, because there is no official interpretation to support it.
It's yet another example of Little League making a rule and then just sort of being AWOL when legitimate questions about its enforcement come up. The issue has now occurred twice that I know of in the LLWS, and both times the coaches have been prohibited from doing something they were probably doing routinely at lower levels of the tournament, and now they can't just because it's a different guy keeping the book.