A few years ago, I agreed to cover for one of our guys and take the last game of the first night of a large multi-level SP tournament.

In the bottom of the first, the pitcher walked the first 12 batters on 48 pitches.

As you might have guessed, this was not the top level. However, each team had won 2 games that day and lost 1.

Has anyone else ever called 48 balls in a row?

In case anybody's wondering, they didn't replace the pitcher. He finally started getting some pitches over and got out with only a 15-run inning. In fact, his team actually pulled ahead, 26-25, in the top of the 7th, only to lose 27-26 in the home half (no walks).

Guess he finally figured out that you weren't going to give him the corners http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/Gif/burns.gif

Just kidding!
http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/monkes.gif

I was trying to find some corners to give him, but when the pitches are behind the batter, two feet short of the plate, over the catcher's head . . .

I surely hope that you hold the record AND that I never, ever come anywhere near seeing it broken.

I agree with Steve's thoughts on this. I don't even want
to attempt to break your record. Hope you have it for a long
long LONG time.

glen

BTW, Mike got pretty good with the smiley's.

Gotcha!

At an ASA 16U NQ in Atlanta (A Ball), I was on 1st, and an ISF umpire was on 3rd. We called 31 Illegal Pitches in a row for crow hopping on a team from Chattanooga against a team from California.
We showed the coach, showed the pitcher and she kept on doing it. He claimed no one had ever called it on her!
In the interim, the PU put up with him screaming, going outside the dugout and behind the backstop and screaming, her father and mother standing up on the top row of the bleachers and screaming obscenities, etc.http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/monkes.gif
Our UIC for Metro Atlanta had to TELL the PU to toss the coach and then he didn't do it for several innings. The park police came and got the parents and escorted them off the property.
Boy, when we came off that game, all 3 of us got chewed out BIG TIMEhttp://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk...e/cussing2.gif
The PU got chewed out because he didn't take control and get rid of the trouble makers and me and the other BU for not taking over when the PU didn't do his job!!!! What a fiasco!http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/shot2.gif
That was 1st game on Saturday and I had 3 more. But, I sure was glad to go ASAP as the UIC glared at me the rest of the day---until I made him laugh!http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/laugh.gif

So Glen, sorry I hold the record!
http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/bttt.gif

Wow. Thirty-one IPs in a row beats 48 balls in a row. I haven't called 31 total IPs in my life. What happened after pitch #31? Did she finally stop crow-hopping?

I may have witnessed another record in a later year of that SP tourney, in a higher division. In the top of the first, the first 15 batters swung at the first pitch and got a hit. Fifteen pitches, 13 runs, 2 guys on base, and I had not called a single pitch.

No, the other team did not catch up. And the pitcher was not the same guy who had thrown the 48 straight balls.

Elaine , I was just thinking that would be a good story for some of those people always complaining about IP never being called..... But then again, some people are just ignorant Brian

Ok ladie and gentlemen,

I want to know how to put all the different graphics and smilies in my posts. My home computer should easily handle what needs to be done, but I am computer illerate, so help is needed.

Oh yea, mens B national this year. don't remember the number, but around 20-25 illegal pitches before the team quit and walked off the field after a couple of innings.

I guess I should have counted the leaps in that game last spring. It's not like me to be humble.

But why are we surprised greymule's pitcher wasn't replaced:
- he was the sponsor ?
- no one else wanted to risk taking the loss ?
- the outfielders thought they were strikes :)


http://download.smileycentral.com/fr...rtner=ZSxdm036

Cecil,

I clicked on your link, and got to a site that wanted to download some software to my computer. I exited the site.

The download may be harmless, but it is NOT necessary to have any special software on your computer in order to put smilies in posts.

Del-Blue,

All you need is a web site that provides smilies and other graphics for people to hot-link to, and a basic understanding of vB code (this site) or HTML (eteamz - also works on this site).

For a vB code explanation, click on the link at the top of the screen when you are entering a reply or at the bottom of the forum screen. Scroll down and you will find the code for embedding graphics images.

Here is a good site to get started with, especially since if you click on the smilie you want to use, it will put the vB (also called UBB) code in a box for you to copy:

The Ultimately Pointless Website.

Tom,

Smiley Central only works on e-mails....Try to use
on different boards, won't work.

E-Mailed Bob and sent same one you did...When he gets
the hang of that one. Send him your others.

glen

How about this one for lopsided. Area end of year league champions tourny. I draw the #1(AA) V #64 (rec)game with the wind blowing strong out to left. No HR limit. In the pregame I tell the coaches, while holding my hand nose high on my 5'9 frame, that since there's a real strong wind to make it easier on the pitchers expect this to be considered 6'.Top of the 1st 1-2-3 and done. Bottom of the 1st pitcher didn't take my hint and keeps lobbing in 12 footers, 30 run rule invoked with no outs.

Thanks for the info guys, Here goes!!!!!!!



http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/aircraft/F16-01.gif

Hey it works!!!!!!!!! I'm not so dumb after all!!!!!!!


LOL

http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/air...pigSflymed.gif

I thought pigs could fly before I would learn this stuff. I'm almost as computer literate as Del-Blue now.

http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/pimp3.gif

Nice, just don't start a war with Tom....

http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/aircraft/PlaneF14.gif http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/bigun2.gif

glen

In answer to "what happened after the 31st pitch?"

The pitcher had been crying for about 10 pitches because she couldn't correct herself for some reason, and the coach WOULD NOT pull her. He (now the asst coach, head coach tossed) finally pulled her as she started really sobbing.http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/mecry.gif
It was disguting display by this coaching group!
http://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/down.gif

Blue,

Noticed on profile that you are from Houston. Do you ever
work AFA? Do you know Tony Torres, Tom Redd, Walter Hill,
or Barry Beck? I work for Donnie Beck and Tony T. a lot and was just
womdering.

glen

I don't know the individuals you mentioned, and I do ASA only. I might do some NSA this year, if I go their clinic. I haven't seen any AFA on the north side of Houston.

blue,

If interested contact Walter Hill at:

http://[email protected]

He is the North Houston Area UIC.

glen

my most frustrating inning
 

...happened just this season. One team (NSA adult women slow-pitch) was up 32-2 in the third inning, and of course the 2 team was home so we had to continue. As teams will do sometimes when they are way ahead, they put in a pitcher they wanted to "train" for a relief role who wasn't yet ready to take the mound.

Very soon I was giving her "nose to toes, first to third" for a strike zone and she was still impossible. She couldn't throw one strike out of six. Even a sympathetic blue can't call a strike when the whole park sees him having to bail from position to keep from getting beaned, or the pitch bounces front of the plate.

I thought I was going to have to issue snow shovels and bass fiddles for the batters. Every now and then the team at bat would swat one (when they could reach up and get it) just to keep us all from going to sleep. Don't know why they wouldn't take her out. Between constant walks and the occasional base hit the home team mounted an almost-successful comeback -- final score 32-28. Numbing.

What made it worse was that the awful pitcher was the niece of my umpiring partner in another league, who was watching this game from behind the backstop as a player on the winning team, and incredibly was imploring me to cut her niece a break.

How about this one from one of my many slow-pitch games? I can't remember exactly whether it was an ASA or USSSA game, but the only thing I remember is it took the whole hour time limit to play one inning, because visiting team batted through the order god knows how many times. By the time home team finally got the 3rd out, I look to my clock for remaining time, and it only had a couple of minutes left, so I yelled last bat. Everyone looked at me like ya gotta be kidding!!! My partner had a stunned look, pulled his watch out of his pocket and said, yeah, last bat indeedy! I'll never forget that one. Don't even ask what the score was, because I've blocked that part of out my memory. Don't need the nightmares that come with it.