Strange batting technique, legal?

[Dakota]

Originally Posted by Linknblue

Guess "you had to be there". This girl was head and shoulders the best player on both teams. The team ahead had players batting left handed when they were right handed players which I can see...........but the attitudes were beginning to show and when this happened, for me, it was a bit over the top. She didn't do it again so no harm, no foul..............I just wasn't going to have the losers of the game being "showed up" is all.

I really don't like the notion that it is the umpire's job to protect the feelings of the players. Actual unsportsmanlike behavior, sure, but it is not our job to protect the self esteem of less skilled players. That you would mention having players batting left handed (a well used technique to keep the score down) would seem to indicate you do have a threshold on such things that is too low.

Besides, as Mike points out, a legal play must be allowed.

[Linknblue]

Again! You had to be there............period!!!! I thought it was unsporting and I stopped it. I wasn't about to let it escalate into something that could have been stopped "before" anything ugly happened. They could have protested all day long. It was my judgment cuz that's what I do and the coach apparently agreed cuz it stopped.

[IRISHMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Linknblue

Again! You had to be there............period!!!! I thought it was unsporting and I stopped it. I wasn't about to let it escalate into something that could have been stopped "before" anything ugly happened. They could have protested all day long. It was my judgment cuz that's what I do and the coach apparently agreed cuz it stopped.

The move is legal......period. And the coach probably stopped it because you said to stop it. They do things like that, you know.