Had 2 of the wildest baseball games ever yesterday......
2 JUCO Conference Teams
We were up 7-2, 1 out in the 7th (our conference, we play 2 7-inning games)
Runner at first, HOME ump calls a balk, on a pick-off play where the kid at first was out by a foot on a perfect throw
Coach comes out, asked for an explanation, says when the pitcher steps off the rubber to go to a base, pitcher has to gain ground to the base he throws to......first of all, how does the home plate umpire tell that, second of all, is the pitcher gonna throw an off-balance 82 MPH strike to first......coach never raises his voice, and the mildest word out of his mouth was damn.......and gets the gate.......our conference, you get tossed, you are suspended for one game.
SO......GAME 2--First 3 innings goes as fast and as smooth as you can imagine.
UNTIL
3rd inning--Kid from their team gets hit......Kid from our team gets hit......Different kid from our team gets hit again----Warnings issued against both teams......
Our starter goes into the 5th before getting pulled........one reliever comes in, gets the guy he was called in for....new reliever in.....3rd PITCH---plunks a kid on the wrist----gets tossed......(by rule, if the player is tossed, so is the coach)---player leaves, and the coach is still on the field, (and keep in mind, the coach knows he is gone, but neither one of the umpires have the stones to tell him he is gone).....4 minutes later, they finally tell the coach who has been very calm the entire time that he is gone.............AND THEN----We reach DefCon 5---Coach chucks his hat, chucks his Oakleys, chucks the lineup card.....makes Lou Piniella look like an amateur---funniest moment came when he called the vertically challenged umpire "a ****ing midget"---priceless---
SO>...After that whole mess---kid from their team in the bottom of 5, gets rung up on a 3-2 fastball that was 4 inches off the outside edge with 2 outs and the bases full in a one-run game......Takes his helmet off, and does his best body slam of the helmet.......spikes it 15 feet in the air.....and he is tossed........Next half inning, kid has a curveball slip out of his hand, plunks one of our kids in the head.....kid gets tossed, and the umps finally decide to toss their coach as well........So, after all of that carnage, we go to the bottom of the 7th----we bring in another one of our relievers---Plunks a kid on the shoulder----but they don't eject him----other coach gets pissed, but not tossed----we win 9-8.
3hr. 10 minute 7-inning game, after the first 3 innings took about 17 minutes.
6 ejections in the second game alone.
2 JUCO Conference Teams
We were up 7-2, 1 out in the 7th (our conference, we play 2 7-inning games)
Runner at first, HOME ump calls a balk, on a pick-off play where the kid at first was out by a foot on a perfect throw
Coach comes out, asked for an explanation, says when the pitcher steps off the rubber to go to a base, pitcher has to gain ground to the base he throws to......first of all, how does the home plate umpire tell that, second of all, is the pitcher gonna throw an off-balance 82 MPH strike to first......coach never raises his voice, and the mildest word out of his mouth was damn.......and gets the gate.......our conference, you get tossed, you are suspended for one game.
SO......GAME 2--First 3 innings goes as fast and as smooth as you can imagine.
UNTIL
3rd inning--Kid from their team gets hit......Kid from our team gets hit......Different kid from our team gets hit again----Warnings issued against both teams......
Our starter goes into the 5th before getting pulled........one reliever comes in, gets the guy he was called in for....new reliever in.....3rd PITCH---plunks a kid on the wrist----gets tossed......(by rule, if the player is tossed, so is the coach)---player leaves, and the coach is still on the field, (and keep in mind, the coach knows he is gone, but neither one of the umpires have the stones to tell him he is gone).....4 minutes later, they finally tell the coach who has been very calm the entire time that he is gone.............AND THEN----We reach DefCon 5---Coach chucks his hat, chucks his Oakleys, chucks the lineup card.....makes Lou Piniella look like an amateur---funniest moment came when he called the vertically challenged umpire "a ****ing midget"---priceless---
SO>...After that whole mess---kid from their team in the bottom of 5, gets rung up on a 3-2 fastball that was 4 inches off the outside edge with 2 outs and the bases full in a one-run game......Takes his helmet off, and does his best body slam of the helmet.......spikes it 15 feet in the air.....and he is tossed........Next half inning, kid has a curveball slip out of his hand, plunks one of our kids in the head.....kid gets tossed, and the umps finally decide to toss their coach as well........So, after all of that carnage, we go to the bottom of the 7th----we bring in another one of our relievers---Plunks a kid on the shoulder----but they don't eject him----other coach gets pissed, but not tossed----we win 9-8.
3hr. 10 minute 7-inning game, after the first 3 innings took about 17 minutes.
6 ejections in the second game alone.
