Thank you gentlemen. You have made it clear enough that I can avoid this controversy in the future. If I have five minutes of game time left at the bottom of the sixth inning, i.e. 7:55PM, I'm going to check the ball, clean the plate, and discuss a personnel change with the score keeper before the third out. It doesn't make sense to me to allow the game to start within three to five minutes of the two hour limit then call it for insufficient light in the next 10 to 15 minutes. The same thinking would apply on a Saturday game when two teams and all their parents arrive 30 minutes early only to find that the current game is going to start a new inning with five minutes left in the playing period.
Am I just overly concerned about nothing or is this part of an umpire's game control?
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Marty
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