re: What happened to 9th batter in tball - I bet one side of the stands was non stop cheering

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You can tell the writer of this article played sports.

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Go figure....it was written by someone that works at a radio station

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I think in T-ball we just let everyone in the lineup bat once each inning and then the half inning was over

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I'm pretty sure this was how it worked when I played T-ball. No score was officially kept, but we were definitely counting the runs ourselves.

In the higher leagues, there was always a slaughter rule and a time limit, so we didn't hold up the field for the other games. This league should implement rule changes to that effect, but I have no issue with the team running up the score given the established league rules (or lack thereof).

Our t-ball league doesn't keep score, mainly because it's hard to actually get an out in t-ball.

Now our coach pitch leagues, there is a 5 run limit per inning, and a 10 run rule after 3 innings. The 5th inning is an "open inning" but with an 1 hr time limit, it's pretty rare to get to the 5th inning.

But in coach pitch, you are going to have some strikeouts, and some poorly hit balls. But there are absolutely a lot of games that end in a 15-15 tie after 3 innings when the time limit runs out.

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five-inning game


Seems like a lot for T-ball.

I think in T-ball we just let everyone in the lineup bat once each inning and then the half inning was over (unless the other team was able to record 3 legitimate outs first - which was rare).

It was also just an hour roughly. Usually this ended up being about three innings. Everyone batted 3 times. Score was always pretty close (if anyone even knew it) although 5 years really don't give a shite and if their parents do then they need a reality check.

T-ball is not real baseball and shouldn't be treated as such.

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I used to umpire for USSSA when I was in high school, Monday-Thursday was all kid/coach pitch but Fridays were reserved for T-Ball and everything in bold is exactly how it went. Our t-ball umpiring responsibilities were pretty much put the ball on the tee, don't get hit in the nuts, and get everyone out of there after one hour.

Even keeping score in T-ball is pretty asinine IMO

Motherfrickers keep track of score in t-ball?

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The Ville Platte T-Ball team recently defeated the Vernon National team 62-22 in a five-inning game

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Sounds more exciting than the WNBA.

When I played t-ball there wasn't even a fence in the outfield. If you were halfway decent, you knew not to actually trust anyone to catch your throw. If you wanted to get an out on a groundball, you basically just had to hold the ball and wait to tag the runner who would inevitably continue around the bases.

I downvoted because you used "points".
It's "runs".

Can’t imagine a worse way to spend 3 hours than watching a 5 inning 80 run tee ball game. My kid played tee ball this year and the games were limited to 1 hour, 2 or 3 innings max, and every kid got to bat once per inning.