Originally Posted by RJM:
One of my son's high school teammates won the league ERA after the head coach changed one of my correct calls. The change wiped out four earned runs. It's not an error when a fielder is slow to a ball and slow to get it out of his glove even if it should have been the third out. The parent went nuts on me when he saw the box score in the paper. He went to the coach. The book was changed. Congratulations ERA title winner!
A local high school kid made SI for hitting .700. My son had a travel teammate in the league. When my son asked about the kid his teammate said, "How does the entire team hit over .400 yet they have a losing record?"
Leave it alone. It's not worth the aggravation.
Honestly if they were both slow to the ball AND had trouble getting it out of the glove that little bobble or whatever it was inside the glove would be enough for me to call it an error. I hate how kids make 'errors' that can't be counted as errors. Full disclosure - speaking as a 20 year pitching coach and dad of a pitcher.