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| Oct. 8, 2025 Anthony Cassort | Topic: Rules of the game Discussion: Purposeful Stalling I'd like the Rules Committee to discuss what is determined to be purposeful stalling in a game. I've seen this occur several times in tournament play. Every time I've seen this it occurred starting in the bottom of the first where a team scored 5 runs in the top of the inning to start the game. A specific example occurred during our game where 5 runs were scored and then the team's pitcher took way longer than what would be reasonable to be ready to pitch (I wish I had started a timer, but it was easily 5 minutes or longer). Please note that the pitcher was last in their lineup and was not in a position to bat in the top of the first. I immediately objected to the umpire. The umpire did award a 'ball' to my leadoff hitter in the bottom of the second inning, but nothing changed for the remainder of the game. As expected, the timer went off in the top of the fifth inning resulting in the 6th inning being declared the open inning. |
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