Originally Posted by VaBaseball1919:
Pitch count is better — but how the heck would you enforce and track that? That would be a nightmare.
Little League doesn't seem to have a problem tracking pitch counts. In addition to the normal scorebook there is a sheet the scorekeeper (or anyone else) can keep track of the pitches. It's not really a big deal.
Back when my son played legion the scorekeeper routinely kept the pitch count even though there was no limitation by pitch count. Coach wanted to keep track of pitches thrown per player.