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There is no correlation between the tie breaker rule and extra innings.
Rule 5 is quite clear that a regulation game is 7 inning unless the home team is leading at the end of the top half of that inning.
It is also quite clear that DC are three in the 7 inning game.
The rule book seems quite clear. Now, since the rule changed negating the charged conference if the pitcher was changed, how many times have you, the umpire, told a coach the pitcher had to be changed, by rule?
DC in softball are not used as they are in baseball. In baseball, it is to talk to the battery and determine their status. I believe in softball, it is more of a team conversation on strategy than worry about the pitcher.
And then you have the argument that the coach who blows all his conferences in the first 3 innings gains a strategic (though that of the mind) advantage by getting more conferences that would not have been available had the game not run long.
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