Injury Sub

[JefferMC]

In games during two different ASA tournaments this year, both allowing two EP in the batting order, the following situations occured:

1) Defense has 11 players and is batting 2 EP's. F2 gets taken out in a collision at the plate, can't return. An EP goes to F4, allowing F4 to take F2's place. Since there is no-one to take the injured players position, an out occurs during her at bats.

2) Offense has 12 players, is batting the allowed 2 EP's. EP gets injured on a mistep at the first bag. OC talks to plate ump and the result of the conversation is that the EP slot may be dropped from the lineup with no penalty during her next at bat, even though there was an available sub to take the slot. I asked PU about it after the game and he stated that it would have been different had it been a position player, but as it was an EP, it was okay. I thought this was rather fishy, as any player can be made into the EP by swapping defensive positions...

Since ASA doesn't officially allow EP, the rule book isn't a whole lot of help. But what do you think?