HS JV game. I was working the plate with a rookie base ump but that has nothing to do with the question
End of 3 with the score visiting team 22 & home team 4. No "mercy rule". About 1:45 played so far. During the home team's 4th pitching change of the game I asked the home team coach if he would object to ending the game after 5. He said that if the other coach didn't care he would like to end it after the 4th since he was out of pitchers. There was no arguement from the other coach. So after 4-innings, 2 hours & 15 minutes, a score of 29-4 and with agreement from both coaches I ended the game.
Most of the runs came from errors & walks. The winning coach had long ago stopped stealing or any agressive base running. I hate to say this but I had a strike zone that I could have driven my Hummer through (with no complaints from anyone, including fans). I know that it was a bad example for me to set for a rookie ump. We talked about the game afterwards and I tried to explain to him what he had just seen
My Adult League game later that night was a 2-1 game, I guess the baseball gods had forgiven me.