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Seems awfully time consuming. I am assuming that there is a kid pitcher until four batters are walked. Is this per inning, or per game? Then they have to roll out a pitching machine, set it correctly and continue with the game?
I have seen leagues that use all pitching machines at this level, and I have seen leagues that use a combination of kid/coach pitch. You may want to suggest this latter combination for next year. It can be something like the kid pitches until four have walked, and then the coach comes in and pitches to the remainder of the batters, each batter having no more than 5 pitches which they can put into play. Another way of doing the kid/coach combination is that the kid pitcher throws three pitches, where they can strike a batter out only if they are really good.(This helps lead to skills development) Then the count carries over to the coach, who can throw two pitches. What happens here is that the kid pitcher can "strike out" a batter by having their count carry over to the coach pitcher. For example, the kid pitcher throws three pitches, one a ball and two for strikes. When the coach comes out, the batter has a 1-2 count on her. If she looks at the first pitch, she in theory has a 2-2 count and can have another pitch tossed to her which she must either put into play or be called out on. If, on the other, the batter had swung at the first pitch from the coach, then a strikeout is recorded to the kid pitcher.
Does all of this make sense, or have I thoroughly confused you?
Scott
[Edited by Skahtboi on May 20th, 2003 at 10:13 AM]
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