Time Limit Games JO fast pitch

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by UmpireErnie

Here in Anchorage we have one additional time limit rule for high school games that is just IMO wacked!!

If there is school the next morning then you cannot start a new inning after 930pm... no matter how short that makes the game.

We usually have two and sometimes three games per night starting at 400p, and have a no-new-inning time limit of 90 minutes. But if the first couple of games go long i.e. tied games going extra innings or a game with no decent pitching where the time expires just as the visitors are coming to bat so you have to get thru six very slow outs to finish the game.. the last game is usually scheduled to start at 745pm but if the field is running behind it might start after 800pm which means those teams are not getting a full 90 minutes.

I guarantee that a high school basketball game that goes into multiple overtimes will not be stopped just because it's 930pm. Weird.

You've got lights, right?

That IS a joke, folks.

[x-tremeump]

I think the "no stopage" note shouldn't be locked in.

I know that it is not in the BOOK but I use common sence in a broken leg sitch, and I can deal with the are you OK Lucy all by myself. I am begining to think that I know what a Clone is................

[Tru_in_Blu]

Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA

You've got lights, right?

Aren't they called Northern Lights; and it doesn't get dark in Alaska at certain times of the year, right?

[UmpireErnie]

Originally Posted by Tru_in_Blu

Aren't they called Northern Lights; and it doesn't get dark in Alaska at certain times of the year, right?

Right now official sundown is about 1030pm.. we don't have lights on a single softball field in the state. Only once have I had to suspend a game due to darkness.. was a slowpitch tournament in the fall when it is getting dark a bit earlier and it was overcast which didn't help. Bottom of last inning due to time limit and visitors up by a big number. Home starts hitting the ball. And hitting.. and hitting.. and we have two outs but they just won't quit.. started inning down by 20ish but have now pulled to within 5 and it is evident the infielders are beginning to have a hard time seeing the ball in the dusk. I suspend the game.

It was a loser out game..and just one out left. The tournament director scheduled it to resume 30 mins before the first scheduled game on Sunday morning. The home team failed to show up! I guess they decided it wasn't worth getting up early for a game that could have ended with just one pitch.

[x-tremeump]

IRISH cat got your toung or is there nothing in the book that covers COMMON SENCE ???/

[JEL]

Originally Posted by xtreamump

IRISH cat got your toung or is there nothing in the book that covers COMMON SENCE ???/

Would that be something akin to "common senSe???"

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by xtreamump

IRISH cat got your toung or is there nothing in the book that covers COMMON SENCE ???/

Not trying to antagonize you or anything ... but WTH are you referring to? You agreed with each other. Nearly verbatim. You BOTH said, "I think the "no stopage" note shouldn't be locked in." Heck, you even both misspelled the same word.

[AtlUmpSteve]

Nothing quite as interesting as a self-described 12U umpire trying to call out an ISF umpire that is a State UIC, in addition. I guess hiding behind an anonymous screen name gives even anti-clones special standing.

[Dakota]

You guys continue to ignore my advice:

Originally Posted by Dakota

How to avoid nonsense:

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3. Select "User Lists"
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Or, if you're not a Hogan's Heros fan,

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