If a coach visits the mound more than once in an inning must the coach remove the pitcher ?
I always thought the answer was yes but the Caldwell Post 29 coach must have thought otherwise. Frankly, I'm not sure. Does anyone know ? I always thought of Caldwell as being masters of the rulebook so I wonder what might happen.
These two programs don't like each other and this goes way back. Heck, I remember the lightning game in 2003. Cherryville versus Caldwell deep in the playoffs. Caldwell has either a two to none or three to none lead in the best four out of seven series, and they're playing at Cherryville, who has a big lead on Caldwell early in that particular game. This huge cloud comes up and the lightning is keen. It wasn't sheet lightning it was the kind with bolts where you can almost smell the ozone.
Cherryville wants to make it through the fifth inning to preserve the win. Caldwell wants to stall in hopes of a rainout because they're way behind. Caldwell is at bat and they refuse to send their batter to the plate claiming the metallic bat was like a lightning rod. The umpire motions to the Cherryville pitcher to begin. The pitcher rifles the ball to the catcher and this is without a batter. The umpire growls strike one and the Caldwell batter comes up to the plate.
The cloud went around and it hardly rained at all. Cherryville would go on to win the game, the series, the state, the regional and would fall to Rochester Minnesota in the championship game of the legion world series played in Bartlesville,Oklahoma.
Maybe it's just me but it seems like during the hottest summers is when these two teams have these highly contested, highly contentious games. Maybe this is going to be one of them. They're fun.
Here is a link to the article in the Lincolnton paper.
http://www.lincolntimesnews.com/2017/06/05/post-100-dominant-caldwell-game-played-protest/
I always thought the answer was yes but the Caldwell Post 29 coach must have thought otherwise. Frankly, I'm not sure. Does anyone know ? I always thought of Caldwell as being masters of the rulebook so I wonder what might happen.
These two programs don't like each other and this goes way back. Heck, I remember the lightning game in 2003. Cherryville versus Caldwell deep in the playoffs. Caldwell has either a two to none or three to none lead in the best four out of seven series, and they're playing at Cherryville, who has a big lead on Caldwell early in that particular game. This huge cloud comes up and the lightning is keen. It wasn't sheet lightning it was the kind with bolts where you can almost smell the ozone.
Cherryville wants to make it through the fifth inning to preserve the win. Caldwell wants to stall in hopes of a rainout because they're way behind. Caldwell is at bat and they refuse to send their batter to the plate claiming the metallic bat was like a lightning rod. The umpire motions to the Cherryville pitcher to begin. The pitcher rifles the ball to the catcher and this is without a batter. The umpire growls strike one and the Caldwell batter comes up to the plate.
The cloud went around and it hardly rained at all. Cherryville would go on to win the game, the series, the state, the regional and would fall to Rochester Minnesota in the championship game of the legion world series played in Bartlesville,Oklahoma.
Maybe it's just me but it seems like during the hottest summers is when these two teams have these highly contested, highly contentious games. Maybe this is going to be one of them. They're fun.
Here is a link to the article in the Lincolnton paper.
http://www.lincolntimesnews.com/2017/06/05/post-100-dominant-caldwell-game-played-protest/