[greymule]

DrC, my son once played in a LL game that was called on account of darkness after 5 innings. The opposing (home) coach, down 11-8, protested loud and long about how his team was being robbed. Not only was it too dark at the time, but the first 5 innings had taken almost 2 hours to play, and we would have had to complete another full inning. Even if my son's team made three quick outs, it would have been full night by the time the home team got up. But one wonders what the coach was trying to prove: throughout the entire game, his team had not made contact with a single pitch. Not a fair ball, not a foul. Not even a foul tip. Every single batter had either stuck out (15), walked (21), or been hit by a pitch (2). So I guess if in the pitch blackness our kid had walked four runs in, the coach could have gone to the bar and told everybody how he guided his team to a win that night.

[Edited by greymule on Jun 6th, 2002 at 02:43 PM]