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Yesterday was a rather interesting day . We had not one Blue, but two Blue , who were oblivious to the the rules of softball. At Chillicothe Oh during a tightly contested 2-1 game in which we ( Notre Dame) were at bat during the 4 or 5th inning . Count was 2-1 on one of our power hitters . The pitcher windmills and accidently loses her grip on the ball and squirts out of her hand rolling backwards towards 2b. Blue doesnt make a sound , doesnt say " Ball " " Illegal " --just nothing. SS retrieves ball and tosses it back to the circle . I'm 1b coach and ask ( tell ?? ) blue thats a BALL , count now 3-1 correct ? and Blue says no " that wasnt a pitch the ball didnt come forward " and needless to say I wanted to go ballistic but stayed calm as possible and ask if home blue would conference with the Field guy to get the call corrected .
So they conference and announce " no pitch " count 2-1 ! I'm boiling mad but dont usually raise 9 kinds of hades with blue because its usually fruitless -- But I call request time and jog over to our head coach and ask him to approach home blue about getting the rule book out and getting the call correct OR consider filing a protest . So our HC goes to blue and blue says " Guys thats my call , the count is 2-1 and we NOT getting any rule book out " .
I know the guys both blew the call , would you as a coach have protested the game at this point ? I know its just over a ball/strike ruling but I'd rather have my HR hitter getting a 3-1 pitch as a lead off to the inning than a 2-1 pitch , she could walk setting up a scoring inning. Thoughts and opinions ?
The game was very poorly officiated to say the least .
So they conference and announce " no pitch " count 2-1 ! I'm boiling mad but dont usually raise 9 kinds of hades with blue because its usually fruitless -- But I call request time and jog over to our head coach and ask him to approach home blue about getting the rule book out and getting the call correct OR consider filing a protest . So our HC goes to blue and blue says " Guys thats my call , the count is 2-1 and we NOT getting any rule book out " .
I know the guys both blew the call , would you as a coach have protested the game at this point ? I know its just over a ball/strike ruling but I'd rather have my HR hitter getting a 3-1 pitch as a lead off to the inning than a 2-1 pitch , she could walk setting up a scoring inning. Thoughts and opinions ?
The game was very poorly officiated to say the least .