Another "just when you thought you'd seen it all" situations from the weekend:

youth girls (91-92’s)

Batter hits foul ball off top of bat, ball flies up quite high towards first and is flying just on the fair side of the foul line.

Lots of coaches/fans screaming instructions ...

Batter-runner takes about five steps then starts wondering where the ball is.

She stops ... looks around ... looks up and kapow !!!! ball drops right on her face (ouch) ... she's in fair territory at the moment.

Everything stops for a moment, no time called yet, she's got her hands on her face and seems to be crying, but then suddenly sprints off down to first base and deals with her pain there.

Much confusion .... ump calls time ... thinks about it, calls her safe.

Nobody complained (maybe because the youngster showed some strength in dealing with getting hit like that).

Anyway, as I sat in the stands not having to deal with it, I thought how I would have called her out ...

I mean, how many chances in life to you get to say :

“Trust me coach, I do feel sorry that she hit herself in the face with her own hit ball, but she is out.”

Wondering how she even got to 1B at that age!

http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/mica/joker.gif

[clowning of course]

glen

now that is funny !!!

'up here', we (usually) identify categories by the year they were born

so instead of say i coach "10 & 11 year olds"
or similar, i would usually say i coach "91s and 92s"

so, just to clarify, by "91-92's", i meant they were born in either 1991 or 1992 ... i did not watch a game of 91 year olds and 92 year old girls !!!!

(hilarious, put that one up with my use of "backcatcher" !!!)

That's my mother you are picking on and she gets to first in 6 1/2 minutes, as long as they are only 60 feet.