Injuries

[LIUmp]

Bless you, my man...it's just a bunch of kids having fun with the game.

What age is it? I have umpired (once...and it was painful) 10U and 12U "Williamsport" tournament games and they were like this. I had one game where I had the plate and it was about 100 degrees out...10U ...no run rule, had to play out the game..no time limit. they needed a winner. We went 11 innings, the final score was 34-32. The kids couldn't pitch it over the plate, and there was a rule with pitchers not being able to throw over a certain number of innings or whatever...the poor kids couldn't get it over the plate....and my strike zone was large as it was.

My partner, who was "dying in the heat" (imagine that) old me..."open up the zone more...if the ball makes it to the catcher..call it a strike! he was joking ...sort of.

Game ran 4 hours and 45 minutes. I lost 7 pounds.

I swore I wouldn't do it again. Now I umpire for ASA and PONY and I don't do anything below 12U. (we have plenty of umpires who want those games anyway).