Worst double-header in history!

[jwwashburn]

I had a JV game last year. In Michigan, our mercy is 15 after 3 and 10 after 5.

In the top of the second, the visiting team took a 15-0 lead. The home team had one goo hitter, he smacked a home run. After 2, it is 15-1. Somehow, the visitors did not score in the third. 15-1 after three. No one scored in the fourth.

In the top of the 5th, the visitors scored 28 runs. During one of the pitching changes, the third base coach asked me to loosen the strike zone. I told him that I could only do so much. "Which one should I have called a strike? The one that bounced 6 feet in front of the plate, the one that sailed over the backstop or the grand slam your guy just hit?

I was impressed that the score board could display 20 and 30...and all the way to 43.

Joe