I am BU in ASA 12A State Championship, L-bracket game with 4 teams left.
Home team is down by 3, and batting with 2 outs and nobody on.
1B coach indicated to 3B coach that time was about to expire and to work quick, so they could try to get another inning.
D-coach requests and gets Time to go talk with P, obviously to slow her down and not to throw strikes.
3B coach tells B to swing at anything and get out of the inning before time expires.
I counted about 15 seconds, and B swung at the first pitch way high and way away.
Okay, here is where it gets real interesting.............
Again, I am BU and mentally counting seconds (just for my own purposes), and at around 6 seconds, and although P has not taken the PP yet, B swings. What to my surprise, PU calls it Strike 2. Less than 5 seconds later, B swings again, and PU calls Strike 3 -- Batter Out.
And on to one more inning and home team lost anyway.
After the game, I said, "
Partner, WTF?"
He said, "
Well, the first one was just a screw up; and on the second one, B had stepped on the plate as she swung, so I loosely applied the rule that she was trying to change batter's boxes during a pitch and called her out on that...and i repeat, loosely applied as he grinned from ear to ear."
I didn't really know what to say, because this is an umpire with a lot more years than me. So, I just smiled.
Bottom line we had 2 strikes called in a span of 10 seconds without a pitch being thrown!!!!
