skipping your time at bat

[Tru_in_Blu]

I've had some lopsided scores at sub-varsity and middle school levels, but nothing that had one team skipping a half-inning of offense.

It did happen in one of those lopsided church league games that was about 34-2 at the time. This league included a bylaw to override the ASA run rule and added that it was the discretion of the losing team's manager if they wanted to invoke the run rule. I'd say in the last 3 or 4 years, I've only had one game where the losing team invoked the rule. That makes for some really looooong games. But in this one game, the team on defense was ahead a ton, and after they recorded the 3rd out of the 6th inning, said they had just gone out 1-2-3 in their half of the inning on offense. So they just stayed on defense, got the last 3 outs and the game was finally over. I almost said "mercifully" over, but apparently, there is no mercy in the church league. And plenty of holey gloves!