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At the older age groups, you will see pitchers take one, maybe two warm-ups and then they are ready. Do pitchers really need five warm-up pitches? Think about it. At 10U and 12U, for a 7 inning game, that's 35 more pitches to her arm. Hmmmmm. So if you throw her two games a day, you have had her throw almost a complete 3rd game just in warm-ups, and that's not even counting the warm-up pitches you had her throwing before the game.
One of the tournaments we were at last year, we were 10U, did just that. We were coming back, and this was the drop dead inning. Told our 1st basemen and Rf not to grab balls and our pitcher just to throw one pitch. We were down like 5-0 in the beginning, and at this time the game ws 5-4. We were the home team. I forget who we were facing, but the stall was in play immediately. Things like I don't know the sign coach, to tieing shoes, etc.
I think in those situations, I think the ump should have the ability to then change the format to remove the stall tactic.