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Originally Posted by RichMSN
The state of Wisconsin has pitching limits for HS baseball. It's made clear to the coaches that umpires are neither expected to know the rules nor try to enforce them at the field. Therefore, I make no effort to know these rules.
I'm guessing it's the same in many states. I have no idea how many innings the pitcher threw earlier in the week and I don't care.
LL is different. I know who is ineligible to pitch before the game starts since the tourney I'm working is ringfenced.
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This comes from the basketball side but it's similar...many states have limits to how many quarters a player can play at the varsity level (mainly for players who play on both the JV and varsity level). In no way are we expected to enforce this limit...even if for some reason we know a player was about to go over the limit (say if the officials were working a JV/V doubleheader). If the opposing coach brings this to our attention, we are to treat the substitution/participation as legal as they have broken no actual substitution rules.
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