[BadAxe]

Ok, my team is in 13 yr old Jr American Legion League. We were playing last night in a very close game (3-1) until the top of the 7th, when the other team exploded, and our team imploded. Well, they went on to score 8 runs to put them up 11-1. The umpire immediately called the game due to the 10 rule. But the team leading was the visiting team. I immediately protested and said there can be no 10 run rule without giving the home team their at-bats. They still called the game and immediately left, even before the teams lined up to shake hands (and we ALWAYS shake the umps hands after the game). But they did not stick around for a minute after calling the game.

Has anyone heard of a 10 run rule where the home team would not get their at-bats or were the umps completely wrong as I suspect in this case, and left immediately either due to not wanting to take flack, or they had somewhere to be. I won't go into the rest of the calls they made that were horrible (not just against us either).

Anyway we have a call into our League commish who feels this was completely wrong, and the game should be completed at the begining of the next game that we play them. The only question in his mind is does the game continue right where it left off (The other team only had 2 outs at the time) or do we revert back to the last complete inning played, which would be the sixth and would help us out greatly as we gave up 8 runs in the 7th. Anyway, I will post an update as the decision rendered, but was interested in all your opinions in this matter. Thanx.

BadAxe