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Originally Posted by Andy
The lead off batter each inning is the current batter. The on deck batter is the one who follows her. I have always allowed both of them out of the dugout between innings, but no more than those two. Never been instructed otherwise.
We had a local 12u coach a few years back that wanted his entire team out of the dugout swinging bats between innings as an intimidation factor. We put an end to that pretty quick....
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Andy,
In red I've highlighted where you go wrong in my opinion. In between innings there's no current batter. Because no batter is allowed in the battersbox. So the first up to bat is the on-deck batter. In our competition and in ESF players looked very surprised when we started to enforce the rule more strictly. However now days no extra players come out. If they do, we just warn them and it's over...