Why move pitching distance?

[JefferMC]

That inning limit idea might have some impact until all the schools learn that they have to have two dominating pitchers. Or make them play double headers to tire the starters out (though I see enough girls throwing 3 or 4 games in travel ball at 11 or 12 that I'm not sure that'd work).

In our 12U-ish recreational league last spring, there were 5 teams. Each team had a pitcher who was a starting pitcher on a travel ball and/or middle school team. The catch was that while the games were six innings, a pitcher could pitch in a maximum of 4 innings. The games usually hinged on how good the teams' second (or subsequent) string pitcher did that game (or how well the coach was able to strategically put his second pitcher against the bottom of the other team's lineup).

One coach alegedly wasn't aware of this limit during draft and only had one girl who had ever really pitched (and she IS a good pitcher) and he complained the entire season about how unfair the rule was.