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Originally Posted by NCASAUmp
While we normally are told not to forfeit a game unless all other avenues have been exhausted, I fully support your decision. The coach was clearly attempting to delay the game beyond the time limit once his team had two outs on them.
Kudos to you. You did the right thing.
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I don't think the coach was attempting to delay at all, in actuality he was trying to avoid a prolonged AB by his last batter which would have had time run out on him/them. If he was able to end the inning quickly, the next and presumably last inning would need to be started. Obviously the hope being that they could shut down their opponent and then come back and score the tieing or winning runs in their half of the inning.
Now let's see...how could he have done that quickly? Have the batter contact the ball somehow while stepping on HP? That would work. They needed the third out quickly. Any other bright ideas?