Batting Out Order or Just Wrong Numbers?

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I don't actually know if the names on the line-up card had the right numbers or not. They were both on the card from the beginning. I should have dug a little deeper on the field when trying to sort this thing out. I could have said, "o.k. Coach, you are subbing #4, Mary in the lineup for #10" and so on, but I just accepted the subs as #4 for #10 and went with it. If I had mentioned the name, perhaps he would have caught his mistake and we would not have had this situation. Because he had the correct players batting in the correct order, but had their numbers reversed when he reported them, I just had the books corrected and we played on. FWIW - the visiting team was up by 8 runs, this was the 5th inning, and I was hoping that they would score at least 2, get 3 quick ones in the bottom half of the inning, and we could all get out of there. I did not make a consious decision to allow the batting out of order for this reason, but probably did not put the time into correcting it, feeling rushed to get off the field. This game was a real dragger, and I was getting beat up behind the plate (balls, cather's mask, everything they could hit me with, they did).