Great game mgt vs. "its the umps fault"

[justcallmeblue]

Long but fun. . .You have to like coaches who know what they are doing and put their players in the best position to win. . .VS. . . the coach who is not aware of the game situation and blames US when the games ends

sit: Rec leage 5th-6th graders. . .12 batters max/inn, 12th can walk but not by IBB. 2 hrs time limit with no pitch after 2:15 hrs. 4.5 innings for a complete game. Top of the 5th inning. .away team down by 3. I am behind the plate + BU.

Away coach asks how much time is left (I verbalize it to both coaches). . .I reply 15 minutes to 2 hrs, 30 to end of game. AWAY TEAM takes the lead by 3 and the away coach RUSHES his last three batters and calling off the time to each one, telling them to swing at everything. The 12th batter comes up and WALKS. . .end of inning. . .

HOME TEAM COACH comes running up to me that the last batter cant walk. . .I tell her to read the league rules and I went over this in Ground rules. . .she insists, wasting more time. . .call over my BU and both coaches for conference and I prove the home team coach wrong in the league rules. . .she objects stating she know that the last batter must KO or get a hit.. . .nowhere to be found in the rules.

Away team coach rushes his girls out to the field. . .no warmups and he is pushing his pitcher to rush. He keeps yelling time remaining after every pitch.

I look at my watch. . .If we dont finish in 6 minutes, the game reverts back to the last complete inning and we have an INCOMPLETE GAME.

Home team players are swinging away (not stepping out to slow the pitcher)with not a peep from the coach. . .3 outs in 6 pitches. Game over with 3 minutes left.

Home team coaches approach me and my partner complaining that I did not notify them about the time (which i did). . .that if they knew they would have changed pitchers (huh? did you want to delay the game?). . . that I rushed her girls to bat. . .all the excuses in the book blaming ME and my BU for THEIR MISMANGEMENT of the game.

It was obvoius she wanted to play out the 2:15 and simply mismanaged her 1/2 of the inning. But dont go blaming me.