What happen to the 10-run mercy rule.

[Rayzor]

This was in a high school game in Ohio.

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[David Watts]

Originally Posted by Rayzor

This was in a high school game in Ohio.

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Mercy rule doesn't kick in until 5 innings are played.

[hopeful1212]

Ah, this brings back memories of my little league team. (We were the ones getting stomped not doing the stomping). Though it was never quite that out of hand.

[Goody]

11 hbp???

[rudel.dietrich]

Originally Posted by Goody

11 hbp???

Probably a small school with a first or second year baseball program.

I remember one game in high school we played a small private Christian school that was in the first year of its baseball program. They could not even fill out a roster and had to use their middle school JV team.
I don't remember the score but the mercy rule applied. We were a fairly small public school ourselves and our baseball program was less than 10 years old when I was a freshmen.

[Faroo6]

If I was on the team winning 65-0, at some point I would have flipped around and batted opposite handed just for fun.

[Cryomaniac]

Originally Posted by Faroo6

If I was on the team winning 65-0, at some point I would have flipped around and batted opposite handed just for fun.

Same here, although I can switch hit to some degree.

In HS, we once beat a small HS (Burgin Independent) 39-0. I thought that was bad. Sheesh.

[soadeathdealer]

Man , well u know the other could have forfited so its kinda there fualt to for the score getting to that . I mean they had to know at end of first inning . So to should the ump.
There should be rules to keep that score from.getting to that like 20 runs to zero by inning two should be red flag stoppage.

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[Kobeck]

Im thinking the kids wanted too play.

The winning side probably saw the bench players getting some action and the losing side at least got some real at bats and their bench players should have got some action as well.

I mean its baseball, sucks too lose big but its still just 1 game

[soadeathdealer]

It wasn't little league so if I remember correctly from my high school days , everyone hated losing
Even by a little. And I am pretty sure the losing team is so embarrassed and didn't wanna go out there . And I'm sure they don't wanna play them or anone right now . Hopfully they get over that and get a coach who will teach them better as aparently that one hasn't taught them anything yet or the kids just arnt picking it up ,I mean they had no runs so they need practice . Maybe next year they will do a ton better who knows .

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[Splitter24]

I just saw a girls HS softball score in the paper where a team won 45-2. They had the box score, too. The winning team had 10 hits and benefitted from 4 errors. Which leads one to wonder how many walks/HBP there were.

When I was in HS, we beat a team something like 38-0. It showed up in the paper the next day as 15-0. The coach must've tried to at least not have the other team be embarassed in the press.

[Goody]

I still can't imagine 11 hbp's. They pitch either too slow or too wild to give up that many runs. As a former pitcher, I can't see how you can hit 11 batters without trying. I threw hard and wild because nobody taught me...but I rarely hit guys. They'd still get out of the way most of the time. If you have the control and speed to hit a guy 11 times you could also get them out.

If you throw slow and wild they get out of they way easy.

11 hbp?

What was going on?

Seems the game was a joke to both teams. I don't think we have to whole story.

[AnotherAlias]

The game should have been called after 6 HBP.

No sense getting people hurt.

[Bagpipes5]

Makes me feel not-so-bad about the Astros 19-6 romping last Friday.

[Faroo6]

Originally Posted by Kobeck

Im thinking the kids wanted too play.

The winning side probably saw the bench players getting some action and the losing side at least got some real at bats and their bench players should have got some action as well.

I mean its baseball, sucks too lose big but its still just 1 game

How many real at-bats could the losing team have gotten though. I'm guessing like 12 maybe

[abailey3313]

I just had an experience relative to this story.

I play in a co-ed softball rec league. Once a week we play a doubleheader. Evidently, the league used to be divided up by competition level (I'm not sure how they did this), but that's no longer the case. I play for one of the worst teams. We're 1-5 and have only one player that doesn't make two or three boneheaded plays or errors during the course of a game.

We played a team last night that squashed us 29-0 in three innings in the first game of our doubleheader. They batted through their line-up twice before we even had a chance to bat, then we were retired in three pitches. One thing our team noticed: their players never once swung at a first pitch, which is pretty rare in co-ed slow pitch. It's also seen as a bit of a no-no. Unless the pitches are totally unmanageable, you should go up swinging. Every count starts 1-1 and the pitchers are just lobbing them in, so it's not like you're trying to run up a pitch count, work a count, or wait for that perfect pitch. They're all meatballs. Anyway, after the three inning slaughter rule kicked in, we were all relieved, but we also didn't really feel like playing out the second game.

On the plus side, the opposing team were (mostly, aside from the taking pitches thing) really good sports. I had talked to their captain prior to the game and he told me that most of his team had been playing together for years and many are in multiple leagues. So early in the second game, with runners on first and second, one of their players hit a line drive to the gap in right center. I chased it down and hustled to throw it in, only to realize that they were sitting with bases loaded. The outfield grass isn't cut very short, so the ball tends to die in it. So it's pretty normal to turn what would be a single into a double simply because the outfielder has to charge a grounder through the infield so much. Come to find out, they'd decided to play out the second game hitting singles-only (except the two or three bombs they launched over the fence). One of my teammates, who played third base, said she was told they decided to do that because "it wasn't any fun for them or for us." I kind of felt like it was an insult. I mean, it was pretty obvious from the start that our teams weren't evenly matched. The three inning slaughter rule is in place to prevent ridiculous games from carrying on, so why not play it straight?

I don't like opponents who rub it in when they're winning, but I personally didn't feel like that's what they were doing until they stopped taking their bases. Settling for singles on obvious doubles or triples made me feel like they were saying, "see how much better we are? We don't even need to advance more than one base at a time."

[Painmantle]

When I was in Babe Ruth baseball my 14yr old year we were stomping a lot of teams and when we were ahead 22-2 or something like that, our coach told us to strike out and he wouldn't count the AB's on our stats... I mean come on, it's not that hard to make an out in Baseball if you actually try to do it. Hell it's not hard to make an out when your not trying most of the time. This is a travesty because it was an easily avoidable outcome, no need to bat from the opposite side of the plate, no need to run slow...it's a simple matter of swinging and missing at the pitch no matter where it is and this demoralizing episode never happens