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Originally Posted by umpjim
"What is the penalty if he exceeds them."
Injured or incapacitated pitcher can't return if his replacement REQUIRES more than 8 pitches.
If a normal pitcher's replacement takes more pitches than 8 I think you are suppose to authorize them. If you do authorize is the penalty no reentry of the replaced F1? What you do if he just keeps throwing I don't know. The few times this happened I told the opposing coach the leaving pitcher was burned as a pitcher. That satisfied them but there is a little ambiguity in this FED sit.
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I stop him at 8. If he wants more, I'd make the coach use the word "injury" and then not allow the return of the replaced pitcher. But, 100% of the time to date, either the coach has used that word at the time of replacement, or the pitcher has stopped at 8 or fewer pitches.