Time Limit Games JO fast pitch

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by nsc_wa

When the official time ends in a game, how do you determine a played inning?

Ex: Say your in the bottom of the 6th and have two outs. The batter hits the ball, but the official time expired right before the pitch. As an umpire, should you have stopped the game in the 5th due to lack of time or if the batter gets out you end the game?

If you are looking at the ASA rule book, the time limits it is describing apply to ASA Championship Play (that is, Nationals, etc.). In that context, you will always finish the inning during which time expired ("finish the inning" means the same as finishing the 7th inning... that is, if home is ahead any time with time expired after the top of the inning, the inning is finished).

If you are not talking about Championship Play, then the rules about time limits can be all over the map, as others have said, and you need to ask. Even so, the vast majority of the time it will be done the same as above (finish the inning), except the time will be shorter than the rule book says.