Players are just dumb!

[Mountaineer]

At least some of them are! I had a LL game tonight - Big League Girls - and one team had a girl that started this past season on a DII team here in WV. Not a bad player and a pretty good kid. In the second game, I'm the BU and she smacked a double and the throw went into third. She was off second and the fielder ran her back to the bag. The cat-and-mouse game then started as the younger fielder would start to walk away with the ball in her glove the runner would start for third only to be driven back to second. After the third time I was getting ready to just kill the play and end the goofy play when the fielder just tossed the ball back to the pitcher who was in the circle. The runner started retreating back to the bag with the pitcher just watching - not even thinking about making a play - and the runner stops and stares. I bang her out for being off base with the ball in the circle and this player who played college ball this year looked at me like I was the most stupid person on the planet! After the game, I talked to her about it and she doesn't see what she did wrong - even after I and her coach explained the rule. Sheeeeeeesh - I'll see her a few times next season in college and I'll be watching . . .