Has anybody seen the video of McCamey Texas Highschool softball catcher intentionally throw a softball right at the face of the batter, to try to get a "interference called out". Its circulating on social media. Its pretty brutal and obviously was intentional as the batter was no where close to being in the path of a throw to Third base.
Question: Has anyone experienced this in highschool baseball? If so, what was the outcome?
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Never seen it. I'm surprised there wasn't a fight after that, girls or not. Not a fan.
Since there was no one on third it is hard to call anything. She did it again according to the article with a runner on third and got an out.
Saw the video and it’s disgusting. Clearly intentional. Should have immediately been ejected from the game and dismissed from the team. Complete and utter failure on the part of her coach and the home plate umpire. The lack of consequences for this kind of behavior inly leads to more of it. And for all the people in the “let the kids have fun” camp, all this begins with bat flips, taunting, sh$t talking and a general lack of respect. Good sportsmanship has become so rare that it’s no longer expected.
Baseballhs- i agree with you, I'm very surprised there wasn't a fight afterward. Maybe the batting team had more class than the catcher was showing !?!
I think Adbono put it perfectly. Taunting and sh$t talking only leads to more bad behavior. I hope there are appropriate consequences for the catcher and her coach.
Especially if she was rewarded with an out afterwards. Agree she should be ejected. I would yank my kid off the field myself if the coach didn’t. Says a lot about the coach too.
That video is really hard to watch. Its obviously coaching.
Seems intentional to me, but I'm not there and had no game flow context. Judging intent though and order...
First occurrence: BR bases loaded, high and out pitch, batter backing up and gets hit... No way she's throwing that ball to a fielder... In fact she looks to stare down the batter, then start talking to the PU pointing at the batter as if she got in the way. Could she claim the ball "slipped" from her hand, perhaps, but based on the point I think not. At this point my radar is way up.
Second occurrence: BR "shows" bunt w/ R2, in 10-5 game, 0-1 count, B6, 1 out, R2 is not going towards 3rd (just what seems to be the normal extended lead), F5 & F6 are not going towards bag... Looks pretty bad because batter backs up and gets hit.. No way she's throwing that ball to a fielder. That's a message.
Once is ooops (barely) perhaps w/ warning, second time it happens, then it's a pattern and trying to send a message. If a P did that (intentionally throw at batter) - you are required to eject. One has to think the other team was coached to know this team/C has done this before. I say this because in the first video you can see the 3B coach walking towards the batter to instruct something, then walking back. That coach didn't even think to ask the umpire about intent. In both videos the 1B coach does nothing - it's as if it's expected. I see no BI in either case especially since there's no actual play being made for which the batter is hindering.
Hard to watch. The intent is blatantly obvious and the rules interpretation excuse is a joke. I hope the UIL will be swift to act and earn back the respect of some of Texan residents here. Go Texas Cowboys. https://twitter.com/Titans/sta...dnsdg1tM0-g&s=19
Hard to say for sure.....saw the video of the attempted bunt. The runner at 2nd was still moving toward 3rd when the catcher made the throw. I guess I could see maybe the C thought the runner was considering a delayed steal, but if it happened twice in the same game I'm leaning toward it being intentional.
@baseballhs posted:Never seen it. I'm surprised there wasn't a fight after that, girls or not. Not a fan.
Girls fight. They can be intense competitors. My daughter has been in one physical fight in her life. It occurred on a softball field in an 18u game when she was sixteen. One of our runners was thrown out at home. She went around the third baseman obstructing the base.
My daughter walked up to her and instructed her if a fielder obstructs a base you don’t go around them. You go through them and get awarded home.
After a couple more attempts by this third baseman to block third my daughter was fired up. When she rounded third she went right through the fielder, grabbed her by the back of her jersey, drove her face into the ground and landed on top of her. She was awarded home after the cat fight. Neither were tossed. The third baseman was warned about blocking third. We had been complaining for three innings.
It was so out of character for my daughter. It hardly looked like the same girl who came down the stairs in a prom dress looking like a model a month earlier.
So much I want to say but won’t.
