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Having coached from T-ball all the way to the 16U level this year I feel compelled to toss in some hard learned "wisdom".
My son grew up playing Pony Baseball. The Pinto Divison is a divison designed to teach players the next step, which becomes "real" baseball at age 9. For this one reason, I think in THIS particular situation the situation could have been handled better by both the coach that got tossed AND the umpire, whether he was a youth ump or adult.
The coaches from both sides should have gotten together with the umpire and simply talked about the play so they ALL three came to the same decision...that being the fact that a player missed touching home plate. THEN the umpire should have taken the offending player aside and EXPLAINED to him that he MUST touch home plate in order to score.
At this point the player should have been allowed to touch home and score. The fact is, within an hour of the game ending NONE of the players cared at all whether they won or lost. Only the parents did. Best to teach the kid how to play the game and move on, then to teach the kids how to argue over something trivial 3 hours later.
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