Far East-DODS

[Jdotmozy]

Recently, myself and several other umpires had the pleasure to take part in the Far East baseball tourney. Which is the final high school conference championship for the military base schools here in Japan and Korea. There were some great plays and some not so great plays, however IMHO, they did something rather unorthodox during the round robin seeding play. The tourney officials required the teams to play the bottom half of the final inning regardless that the home team was already winning. Their reasoning was bc of the tie-breaker, offensive runs scored, and that each team needed/deserved the same number of at bats.

I've been involved with baseball, playing, coaching, or umping, for +25 years and I was the least expierenced/youngest. None of us could recall I tourney where they did this, nor could we talk them out of playing the last half inning.

Has anyone else come across this before? And how did you handle it?