"Are you serious, that's insane."

[Dakota]

The quote below was posted on the small ball board. LDUB, if you object to my bringing it over here, say so and I'll delete it. This was posted as kind of a follow up to a discussion about players drawing lines in the dirt (explaining it being posted on the baseball board).

Since the "traditions" and so on regarding player behavior differ somewhat between little ball and fastpitch, I thought this might be worth kicking around over here.

Originally posted by LDUB
Last night I called a youth softball game. One of the girls seemed to have a little of a problem. So she is up to bat, pitch comes in, catcher moves and blocks my view of the end of the pitch. From what I saw of it, it was a strike. I call strike, batter looks back and says "Are you serious, that's insane." I decide to let it go. She ends up getting a walk.

Next time she is up, first pitch is about halfway up the torso. I call the pitch a strike. Batter moans, and takes her arm and signals to the height of the pitch. Right after this pitch, we realized the game was over because of the slaughter rule. Now I would have issued a warning to the batter if the game had continued. Did I do the right thing?