Thank God the Season is Ending....
 

...because it is getting weirder as it winds down.

We have a small - 4 team coed league that we work on Sunday in Port Jervis, NY, which is right across the Delaware River from Pennsylvania . Its run by a DV in a wheelchair, who is there behind HP, keeping score, and helping you maintain order.

So to end his season, he decides to have a 'third place game', and then a best of three for the top two teams - the two 'good teams' in the league. So I worked games one and two on the plate. Game 1 of the 'final' was fine, the home team won, and it was fairly well played game. So for Game 2, me and partner changed , so I was on the bases. And the first game winner comes out smoking rockets all over the place. 5 in the 1st. Couple in the second. couple more in the 3rd. The home team/Game 1 loser can't get more than a base hit here and there. Finally in the 4th, leadoff batter hits a smash to 2B, and she can't handle it it goes into RF. The B kinda of slowed , and then stumbled right before 1b, planting his foot to go turn to 2nd. and pulls his foot OVER 1st, and goes to 2B without ever touching1B! As I had stopped to cover what I thought was a grounder, I ended up riming the runer to 2nd, thinking all the time, "PLEASE don't appeal, PLEASE!", knowing the s**t storm it will bring on. No such luck, the guys did not even hesitate to throw to 1B for the live appeal. So I called him out, and the R went, oddly enough, apes**t, immediately saying that I f*****g suck, so he got to leave early!

but it gets better

The league president decided to keep the mercy rule - ASA book 10 after 5 - for these games, so we are going into B5, visitors and game 1 winners up 12-1. Then it starts - base hit, out, out base hit - amI am thinking uh - oh, we might have work longer? Then all of a sudden, they are lining up - the spot in the lineup where the ejected player had been came up - third out, good game, have a nice winter. :D

You can't make this stuff up! :p

And yes they kept playing, as it was 10 person modified, and only went down to nine.

Asa?

Yup

Yuck!

Was there a local rule that said teams could continue to play short-handed in the event of an ejection?

As long as you don't go below 8 - most of our local leagues do that..

Can hardly wait for fall ball!!! :cool:
I guess not until Sept 28, but maybe the 22nd. :)
(Will be away Sept 8 - 20).

The only fall ball we have is a Fri/Sat league at this field a guy built at his 'farm'. The guy does landscaping/groundskeeping for schools and built this field literally next to a corn field :D - it has a right field that is about 160' from home - with a 50' mesh wall :p. And left field is about 300' :eek: He uses a Clincher, and games rarely last more than 1:20/1:40. And I might be assigning it....:o

I hope you are talking about FP

ASA Modified A

Thank god, that is a long time for a SP game