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First off I want to say the following situation did not effect the outcome of the game. I'm just wondering two things... 1) what is the correct way to handle this situation and 2) what would you do
A 14U tournament we were playing in was a straight double elimination with no pool games. The opposing team won the toss and elected to be home team and took the field. Our 1st 3 batters struck out BAD. I mean, this pitcher was bringing some heat. Our swings were no where close to even touching a ball. 3 outs, girls in the dug out say holly s**t she throws hard.
Our girls take the field and our pitcher and catcher takes position and looks at me and says, " this isn't right". I walk to the mound and we discover it is set up at 35 feet.
The umpires call for the TD to measure it off and it is at 35'. The grounds crew come and move it back to 40'.
We ask the TD, what are we going to do about the 1st half of the inning. It only took their pitcher less than 6 minutes to strike out our first 3. Game time were 1 hour 40 minutes so time was not an issue. The TD says, ASA rules don't allow him to start over so therefore you lose that half and play ball.
We proceeded to play the game and the very next inning, the same pitcher came out and we put 4 runs on the board that time. I guess she wasn't as fast as we originally thought. Our team did end up winning 12-0.
I have never been in this situation before but I just don't see how the decision to keep playing and not start over was right. Can someone shed some light as to what rule would pertain to this.
What would you do?
A 14U tournament we were playing in was a straight double elimination with no pool games. The opposing team won the toss and elected to be home team and took the field. Our 1st 3 batters struck out BAD. I mean, this pitcher was bringing some heat. Our swings were no where close to even touching a ball. 3 outs, girls in the dug out say holly s**t she throws hard.
Our girls take the field and our pitcher and catcher takes position and looks at me and says, " this isn't right". I walk to the mound and we discover it is set up at 35 feet.
The umpires call for the TD to measure it off and it is at 35'. The grounds crew come and move it back to 40'.
We ask the TD, what are we going to do about the 1st half of the inning. It only took their pitcher less than 6 minutes to strike out our first 3. Game time were 1 hour 40 minutes so time was not an issue. The TD says, ASA rules don't allow him to start over so therefore you lose that half and play ball.
We proceeded to play the game and the very next inning, the same pitcher came out and we put 4 runs on the board that time. I guess she wasn't as fast as we originally thought. Our team did end up winning 12-0.
I have never been in this situation before but I just don't see how the decision to keep playing and not start over was right. Can someone shed some light as to what rule would pertain to this.
What would you do?