Let me just respond to this question, and shed a little more light on what happened since it doesn't seem to be quite what occurred on Saturday. We were, in fact, beating the team 12-0. The injured player was not sent home by her coach. It was a reaction made by the player because we are an aggressive running team. The girls are told to steal on passed balls, and that is exactly what happened. She reacted. There was more than just "blow by" contact at the plate. The injured player suffered a buckle fracture from being stopped by the catcher. The catcher did absolutely nothing wrong. She was just making the play and the runner slid into her knee. We, too, lead off early to get out outs because we are not there to humiliate anyone. The injured player is NOT out the entire season and is expected to make FULL recovery. Fortunately, in this situation, the injured player's mother is a stay at home mom, and will not be missing any work. I have beaten myself up over this player's injury for the last couple days now. This team, we happened to be playing, had coaches yelling across the field to throw elbows at the runners due to the fact that there was contact made at first base because there was no safety bag and a throw pulled their first baseman into the middle of the bag. I certainly hope that man isn't the one starting this blog. Our team overcame a 7-0 deficit in the top of the 7th inning last year at state, scoring 12 runs and winning state, so they don't ever assume a game is over. They are travel ball players!! They are designed to be aggressive. How do you ask players to be aggressive one week then not the next? The injury was a freak accident. I actually visited with the player today and her spirits are good and she is starting back to her hitting lessons Monday. Lesson learned for me, but to imply the injury has ruined a girl is a bit much. Just my thoughts...