Ten Seconds...

[jwwashburn]

I did my first scrimmges yesterday.

Our association made it very clear that we will be enforcing the rule.

My partner and I had a discussion with the coache before the game. We explained the rule at length. Incredibly they were not familiar with the new rule. They seemed to completely understand it at the meeting.

In the bottom of the first, a girl had two strikes on her and was way out of the box looking at the coach and wasting time. I got to ten and she had not even started toward the box. I called Time! STRIKE THREE! The coach gave me a look as if I had stepped out of a spaceship and came to ask me about it. He wasn't actually angry so much as utterly confused.

Next inning, one of his batters got in within the ten seconds, then the pitcher took a few seconds and the batter raised her hand, said time, I said no, she stepped out anyway and the pitcher delivered a pitch about three feet outside-STRIKE THREE! Third out. I explained the rule again to him and he said that the rule was bad.

The game went along and he had one more called for a strike and the visitng team had one called for strike three.

Both coaches told me after the game that theyare glad that this happened in the first scrimmge in hopes that it won't happen in real games...we'll see.

Anybody have any experiences with it yet?

Joe In the Texas