I had this exact situation ome up this past week-end in Shelbyville, Indiana. We have 10 players. Was using the DEFO. Wanted to use the girl on bench (in batting order but had not played defense) for an inning in the field for a young lady who was having a physical issue. We inserted the bench player and the opposing team AND UMPIRE were liked totally confused. Finally after calling over the tournament director and physically showing her what we wanted to do....basically....on defense it is "any 9 any time" when your in this situation...we were allowed to continue. Then later in the tournament we had a team we were playing put the DEFO in to run for a girl who had hit a double. We were good with this. But when I made the statement that this would eliminate the DEFO position for the game it "blew" that umpires mind also. Guys, USFA, these are your rules you really need to know them and how they are applied.
