[Dakota]

See my other post, "batter stands like a statue" for the set up situation.

Anyway, coach & I have a somewhat tense, but civil discussion on my call. I don't budge. Coach, very displeased, returns to 3rd base coach's box.

Then, coach yells across the field to his batter, "If she does that again, throw the bat at her. If the umpire won't control the game, I will."

This was about the 5th inning between two good-natured just having fun fall ball teams; no batters had been hit by a pitch before this little incident, and there had been no problems with anything up to this point, (and certainly nothing that would have even suggested that the pitch was somehow payback - not even a remote possibility) so "controlling the game" was hardly the issue.

I had called games with both of these teams earlier in the day (against different opponents) with no problems. Kids & coaches just enjoying softball.

Second, this was this batter's 5th or so time up to bat over two games, so I knew pretty well that this kid was no way going to follow these idiotic instructions.

Question: should I have ejected the coach for this remark?

I just took my mask off and gave him "the look" and continued the game. Sometimes I think I am too easy to let such things just roll off my back.

(BTW, we have a brief discussion during the inning change as he walked back to his dugout, but other than the coach generally sulking for the rest of the game, it caused no further disruption.)