How much do you take

I agree with trying to be professional and doing the job you are being paid for, but I think you take as much as you can take and when a team makes it impossible for you to do your job it is time to talk to the coach. We are all human and we all handle pain differently. I did a 12 and under rec. game several years ago. Pitcher didn’t have a lot of velocity but it was still hard enough to hurt when it hit. The only thing the catcher was doing was giving me a little shade from the sun and not dong a good job at that. I kept getting hit on the hands, arms and legs. I still stuck with it. Even with shin guards it still stings if you get hit so you start dodging. I got hit on the side of the leg and notice it stung a little more than some of the others. Finally the coach came out and said he needed to change the pitcher. I looked at him and said he needed to change the catcher too because I am getting beat to death. He just looked at me and went on about his business. I made it through the game with the same catcher. I didn’t have to worry about calling strikes because they never got one in the zone. After the game I started to take my shin guards off and couldn’t un-hook one of the straps. The pitch that hurt so bad had mashed the hook shut. I had to use a screwdriver to pull the hook back apart.