Mechanic Question

[Justme561]

Originally Posted by mbyron

Saw this recently:

If you play 7 full innings, that's 14 half innings and 13 changes in a game. If you're allowing 1 minute for warmups, that's 13 minutes.

If you allow 4 minutes instead — just 3 more minutes per change — you're adding 40 minutes to the length of the game!

If you allow 2 minutes, you're still adding nearly a quarter of an hour. Your 2 hour game should take just 1:47 to play.

Enforcing this rule (and it IS a rule, at every level, 60 or 90 seconds) will make your game much faster without seeming to rush it.

High School or College (or lower levels) I keep the game moving.

I have one of my partners (or partner) give me a signal when we are 50 seconds into the warm-up pitches so that I can get things 'wrapped up'. If the pitcher is warming up quickly I always indicate to the batter when there are 2 pitches left and then I indicate when there is 1 pitch left because I want him to get into the batters box ASAP.

While I love to be on the field officiating I am a 'stickler' for keeping the game moving. If you don't keep the game moving it makes for a sloppy looking game.