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Let's not forget that adding a clock to a softball game is unnatural. The rules do not get into "clock management" at all except for a vaguely-worded rule about "tactics" resulting in a forfeit. The timed softball game is a tool to manage multiple scheduled games on the same field, nothing more or less. This can be to keep a tournament on schedule or to not have the 10:00 pm slowpitch game not get started until 11 because of some 12U rec game that started at 7:00 didn't finish until 9:15 because, by gosh, there was 0:02 left on the clock for teams that took 45 minutes to complete the last inning!
The rule exists to control use of the field, not to make sure some team is not cheated out of their chance to score another 12 runs while their opponents throw the ball around on every play.
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Tom
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