Player safety?
 

Dylan Fosnacht of Rochester High School throws 194 pitches in 14 innings - ESPN

Does a kid throwing 194 pitches ever become a safety issue that an umpire should do something about?

No. Above my pay grade.

That wouldn't happen here, BTW. Under no circumstances can a kid ever pitch more than 10 innings in a day here. And that's an exception for a game that goes extra innings, only. Otherwise it's 7 innings max with a mandatory two days rest afterwards.

And umpires are specifically not required or supposed to involve themselves with the pitching rules. The only exception, for me, would be to remind a coach if he sent a kid out to throw an 11th inning. If he insisted, I'd play it (knowing that the game will be forfeited later, by rule).

The other interesting part of this story was that after the catcher caught 14 innings, he then pitched the final three. :rolleyes::rolleyes:

And then pitched the entire second game, as well.

Unless you're working a ruleset that requires the umpire to insert himself here (Dixie does, if I recall), this is not our purview at all.

No, it is not the job of the umpire (and I don't care what Dixie says, either) to worry about pitch count. Maybe I'm jut too old to figure out how to do this but I cannot hold an indicator and 2 pitch counters and still call balls & strikes! This is total nonsense to even consider this to be part of umpiring. That what God made coaches for!

At what point abuse? 195 pitches? 79? 2,908?

Let abuse be a parent-coach-player decision. Sadly, many parents and coaches will eat their children/players. :(