Gotta love fall ball.

[MD Longhorn]

Holy cow. How do you get to high school and not know how many strikes you get?

[ASA/NYSSOBLUE]

Fall ball around here is great - its usually two teams of mixed varsity/jv kids....Sunday morning..... hour and half time limit each game...by yourself. We get -- hold yourself -- 55 a game for a DH (minus our assignors fee) Its casual as all hell, and nobody bothers you. Its balls/strikes/outs, and if some kid goes home early, and leaves a team 'short', the other team will 'lend' an outfielder. Heck, last Sunday one team 'borrowed' a PITCHER! The kids get work, I get work, and everyone goes home happy - and usually early, as the coaches want to make it home in time to watch the NFL!

This Saturday I am going to one where we will play one, break for a bbq (yes, I will get fed ), then play another......you just cant beat this sometimes!

I got this twice in September, plus probably two more times in Oct....

[RKBUmp]

Rec league game, runner on 3rd. Pitch comes in high and tight on the batter and catches her on forearm. I call dead ball, batter starts walking to 1st, then suddenly sprints around base and takes off for 2nd. I yell dead ball a couple of times and then just give up and watch as pitcher tries to throw out batter at 2nd as runner from 3rd runs home. I then have to explain to coach why everyone has to go back. "But we do that play all the time!"

[MD Longhorn]

Runner on third. Batter walks, runner creeps and stops. Pitcher simply watching the runner on third. BR passes first, runner just stands there. OUT!!!!

Coach: "But blue, she's just doing what we taught her to do!"
Me: "Then that out's on you, coach."

[Skahtboi]

Originally Posted by mbcrowder

Holy cow. How do you get to high school and not know how many strikes you get?

Honestly, I think that this was this girl's first time to play. She was on the really low JV team that I mentioned in my OP. Two or three of them looked and played as if they had never been on a ball field before.