NSA...Please help me find Injury Rule

[BlitzkriegBob]

#1 - You're not going to find it in the book, unless the umpires suddenly decided that perhaps it was an altered bat, which is covered under Rule 3 as Michael cited.

#2 - It sounds like it was nothing more than an accident as you described.

Any assumptions about why the umpires decided to take the actions that they did would be just that...assumptions. Bandit, you may have noticed that NSA umpires are checking bats before the games this year (at least we are up here in northern Indiana), whereas previously we did not. I heard that there was an incident last year where someone (somewhere, I don't know where) was hurt by a batted ball and there are some legal issues that are still pending. Perhaps this is a product of that situation. Perhaps the UIC instructed the umpires to take that action. I don't know, but if it was me, barring a directive from the UIC, I would have simply noted the injury on the game card and let the game continue.

Are you playing at HSE? I heard that they were starting games at 11:00 a.m. yesterday because they had over 80 entries in the tournament.

[MD Longhorn]

As above, there are no rules to allow the umpire to do what you said they did... however, considering that you're a fan, perhaps you didn't hear or see something else. I've worked tourneys (rare, but it happens) where the TD's make themselves responsible for bats, so this may have been the case. What might have happened here (and I'm speculating) - is the bat made an odd sound when the ball was hit, and/or the hit itself caused a new dent to appear in the bat - either of which might have been enough that they wanted TD's to recheck the bat.