Courtesy Runner Rule

[WestMichiganBlue]

FED 8.9.1 or ASA 8.10.A. "The same courtesy runner may not run for both the pitcher and the catcher in the same half inning or any time during the game."

Does not any time during the game include the same half inning? Any idea why this is written this way?

I had to call this tonight on a coach that is one of the top coaches in this area and, I assumed, should have known better. She used the same courtesy runner three times, the first two for the pitcher, then in a later inning for the catcher. When I told her she couldn't do that, she gave me one of those "nobody ever called that on me before" looks, but conceded and sent her runner back to the bench and returned the catcher to the base.

We went on with the game. Did I make the right call?

WMB