Time between pitches

Tiger3boy100+ posts

What is the best way for a coach to address the following situation?

Happened last year- Pitcher for visiting team (cross-area rival) is being extremely dileberate. Take upwards of 30 seconds between pitches. He is waiting for the batter to drop the hands and lose concentration. Between innings (bottom 1st-top 2nd) I ask the PU to watch the kids time between pitches. Next inning, same thing. I encourage my players to call time, regroup and hit. PU states to my players that if they continue to call time he will call them for delay. When asked for explanation (politely, and between innings) he defends his actions toward my players, and states that it is not his job to time the pitcher. BU (a younger, very polite guy) states that he cannot do anything.

The outcome for us was a very frustrating 1 run loss in a game that we needed. What should a coach do?

2/19/0410:30 AM

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