Protecting Pitchers.......

[baldgriff]

Last night I had a pitcher take 3 come backers and he fielded all of them cleanly, but if he had missed 2 of them we would have been cleaning pitcher up of the ground. To compound that one of the players on the pitchers team points out to me that there have now been 3 balls hit back at the pitcher and he was going to do something about it. So his next at bat he tells his runner at 2B to keep his "heads up". He crushes a pitch that fortunately went up as it was leaving the park in less than 2 seconds (for an out). If he had hit it as a line drive there is no doubt in my mind that the pitcher would have been "seriously tested" to get out of the way.

I am starting to believe that pitchers need some type of protection out there by rule. However, I am not sure that anything like that could be successfully managed and not change the game significantly.

Last night was E ball and the mix of players that play down levels, hot bats, and players that are not able to react quick enough really has me concerned for the safety of some of these players.

2 questions for all of you:
Do any of you think that this needs to be addressed by the governing bodies for Slow Pitch?

How do you handle a player that has told you that he is going to "buzz the tower" to protect his guy?