My JV baseball team was playing an away game last week and it started to rain. They added fresh dirt to the mound for their pitcher in the beginning of the inning. Our pitcher took the mound as the rain continued to poor and they did nothing to the mound. Once again, the home team began Doctoring the mound and then began to do maintenance around where the catcher plays. Is there a rule in most states at the high school level that determines when a home team can do maintenance to the field. It was obviously giving their pitcher an advantage. When they began the field maintenance we were winning 4-2. After the 2 innings that they performed the maintenance they were winning 7-4. It is suspended until they come to play us at our field and we are only going to play to the 5th inning and we were in the beginning of the 4th. What is the general rule and what should I do. I want to approach my athletic director about it, but could not locate my rule book. Thanks for the help.
Brad Farr
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