Injury "Timeout"

[Umpteenth]

Questioning every close call?! No, won't happen.

IMHO, this is a form of showing you up. Put a stop to it early. Questioning close calls is akin to questioning balls and strikes and should be treated as such.

I've had a couple injury plays for which I stopped the clock (both were Men's SP). First was a long fly ball to dead center. Left-center running hard to get there and make the catch, but suddenly collapses and ends up sprawled on the grass. Ended up he blew one of the tendons around his knee (ACL/MCL, don't know which it was); as he was carted off the field, he said, "it's my knee, felt just like when I blew out the other one 3 years ago". We stopped the clock for about 10 minutes to get transport vehicle on the field for him.

Second instance was a hard grounder to 3rd. F5 got into position, playing down on the ball, but as he did so, the ball hit a stone or dirt clump and hopped hard into his face, square on his nose. He was unconscious before he hit the ground. It was scary seeing him go limp so quickly. He suffered a broken nose. This was also about 10 minutes of stoppage to let him get his wits before standing up to leave the field.