What would you do?

[TwoBits]

Situation in my last game. Summer league using FED rules between two pretty good teams ages 15-18. Being summer league, I know most of the boys and parents on the home team.

Top of the fifth, home team down 3-2, home team replaces pitcher. The catcher informs me that he is only pitching because he convinced the coach to let him because he is ticked off because the visiting team is razzing him (he was playing first). This pitcher lasts 3 pitches before being pummelled by 3 straight doubles to the gap. A new pitcher takes over, old pitcher goes back to first.

Fast forward to the top of the seventh, home team up 6-5.
I hear this kids mother to stop the game for the lewd comments the visiting team is making. I still cannot hear anything other that laughing, so I suspect something is going on. About this time, the kids Dad makes his way to the visiting team's dugout and threatens the assistant. Now I stop the game, ask both team's head coaches what is going on, and neither one said they had heard anything. Home team wins 7-6 in bottom of the seventh.

While we should ignore commments from the stands, exactly when should we take action before parents become physical?