Taking One For The Team

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Originally Posted by 5stardog

Outside the obvious stupidity, is there a specific rule governing a coach or assistant coach telling/yelling to a batter in little league baseball?

You can understand PLAYERS yelling out, "take one for the team". For a youth COACH to do so is worse than stupid. How about this: A kid OBVIOUSLY takes a pitch to the lead arm as instructed by the coach. You correctly announce, "that's a ball" (assuming the pitch was outside the zone when it hit the player) "get back in the box". When the coach comes down the line waiving his arms and barking at you, run him for conduct. My guess is he won't do it again.