Longest: This year, 21 innings in an NJCAA Regional game. Time: 4:31. And yes, I was doing the plate. It was my second game of the day. The next day, in my second game of the day, I had the plate again in a 9-inning game that lasted 3:35! Figure that out. Oh, and the worst thing? The day after that, I had to take the spot of one of our young umpires in an emergency fill-in for THREE Little League games in a row. I don't do L.L. anymore, but got stuck with 18 more innings of plate work. All total, I had 48 innings of plate work in less than 48 hours! Needless to say, my feet had to be euthanized after that, though I DID switch to my comfortable base shoes for the second two LL games.
Quickest 9-inning: Today, 9 full innings (9-inning tournament games) in 1:37. Score = 2-1. Home team WAS winning 1-0 until the 7th, when the visitors scored thanks to an error. We WERE on track for an hour twenty.
Quickest game ever: in 1984, a Little League game, 47 minutes, where the visiting pitcher struck out all 18 batters he faced, 13 of them looking. Moreover, only two balls were ever contacted, one a foul off to the left side, the other a foul off to the right. No one ever touched the ball again on the home team.
Mon Aug 07, 2006, 01:32am
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