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Originally Posted by Jdotmozy
The tourney officials required the teams to play the bottom half of the final inning regardless that the home team was already winning. Their reasoning was bc of the tie-breaker, offensive runs scored, and that each team needed/deserved the same number of at bats.
I've been involved with baseball, playing, coaching, or umping, for +25 years and I was the least expierenced/youngest. None of us could recall I tourney where they did this, nor could we talk them out of playing the last half inning.
Has anyone else come across this before? And how did you handle it?
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There is no easy method for running tournaments IF you guarentee team A a certain number of games.
yeah I have done tournaments in which the HT even if leading would bat PROVIDED there was enough time left.
You didn't say if there were time limits.
The best method is single elimination similiar to HS sectionals / states. You keep advancing as long as you win. Yeah their is still some luck involved by which team you draw but then you do not have to worry about runs scored or given up just winning each game even if it was shortened due to the Mercy rule or weather.
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