Switching Batters Boxes in Pony baseball

[LMan]

Originally posted by RPatrino
The BR erroneously runs to first on "Ball 3". Oh MY, quite a dilema on our hands!!! What are we to do?

I had this happen once, in probably my 3d or 4th game ever. I am PU, count is 2-1, R1. Runner is stealing on next pitch (which was right down the pipe and not offered at), I call "strike!", but F2 pops up, fumbles the ball on the transfer to throw down and ball dribbles a few feet away. Runner, for some unknown reason, aborts the steal and returns to 1B.

Scoreboard goofball assumes pitch was a ball from all the confusion and dropped ball (I assume) ..it says "3-1". I signal/announce 2-2 and we continue, scoreboard is never right, anyway.

Next pitch is a ball. Batter thinks its ball 4 and starts trotting to 1B. He's about 10 feet down the line when I ask 'where are you going?'. Once batter figures out its 3-2 he comes back.....

F1 notices that R1 has drifted 15 feet off 1B during this (thinking he is being forced to 2B, no doubt) and is just standing there when F1 fires ball to F3 and picks him off

You can imagine the coaches 'conference' I had then


"But it was ball 4!" "No it wasnt, coach"
"But MY scorekeeper in the booth had ball 4!!!"
"I'm the only one on this field whose 'count' counts, coach'

..and so on and so forth