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6.2.2 C - taking too much time
Fed game yesterday. I am HP. Pitcher is struggling to throw strikes. Starts taking FOREVER to pitch the ball. After saying a couple times, "hey guys, lets speed things up a bit" pitcher is still slow. I start visually counting (like a basketball ref) and the pitcher takes the hint and starts working faster.
My question is, if I had needed to issue a 1 ball penalty for taking more than 20 seconds to deliver the ball, what is the proper procedure to do this? Do you call time (kinda defeats the purpose of trying to speed up the game)? Do you let the pitcher remain on the rubber? Exactly how do I do this should I ever have cause to do it? |
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Calling time seems like a reasonable thing to do as you will likely confuse the pitcher, batter, catcher, coaches, scorekeeper, etc., if you just yell out "Ball!" without some sort of explanation.
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I umpire FP softball too, and I remember one time in a USSSA Girls' 16U tournament game, the team finished its turn and bat and its HC kept its players in a huddle in front of its dugout for approximately 55 seconds. The team took the field and F1 toed the Pitching Plate; I gave her the Stop Sign, said Batter Up, and then said Play Ball. The coach started to complain about his pitcher not getting any warm up pitches and I told him why she wasn't getting any. Both teams hustled onto the field after their bats the rest of the game.
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