re: Hold up...kids get rings for winning travel ball tournaments

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Give us a funny "why isnt billy playing more" story

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Those are usually not funny as they involved an irate mom. A good example happened back in the 9&10 year old level. We were in the league championship game and had subbed out our starting pitcher and brought in a kid off the bench. He was not a pitcher though so we sent him to the outfield and brought up a kid from the outfield who could pitch. One key detail here is that we were now out of pitching other than the kid we just put on the mound and the one who had started. All the other kids on our team who could pitch were already out of their legal limit on innings pitched. Well the first pitch from this new kid was hit right back at him, he threw up his arm and the ball hit him square on the forearm *snap*. He's hurt and he's done. Literally one pitch after we brought him in from the outfield. Well the only kid we could put on the mound was the starter we'd just pull. By the rules only the starter can go back to the mound and on top of that we had no other pitchers left. Well the rules also state that when a starter returns to a game, his sub has to come out of the game. This means the kid who had been on the bench and came in for the starter had to come back out after he saw the field for only one pitch. His mom was ready to explode and wanted to kill us all.

Thankfully for me, I was an assistant that year and when she came up to me to rant and rave, all I had to do was point to the HC and tell her, to go talk to him as it was his call (Albeit the only call he could make)