Colorado HS pitch count rules

From the Article:

Rest days will be determined by the number of pitches thrown in a game:

•For one to 35 pitches, no days off are required.

• For 36 to 60 pitches, one day of rest is required.

• For 61 to 85 pitches, two days are required.

• If a pitcher throws 86 to 110 times in a game, he’s required to take three days off. 

• The maximum amount of pitches allowed is 110. 

A decent start, but personally I would like to see longer rest periods.  Hopefully more states will follow suit, but I doubt it. 

Here's the thing I HATE about this rule:

Team plays Tuesday and Friday.  Pitcher starts Tuesday and goes 5 or so and throws 75-85 pitches.  You can bring him back on Friday and he can go another 110.  Theoretically that is nearly 200 pitches over 3 days.  IMO simplify it 40 pitches give them 3 days.  70+ give them 4.  Max out at 110 on a single day.  HS rarely play back to back anyway.

At least it prevents the 150-160 pitch beat downs some kids are put through.

Pitch your best pitcher in the final 3-4 innings of each game.

Instruct your infielders additional 40 minutes each day to make the plays and keep the pitch count "down". Bench a player if he misses the "cut off" man.

Who monitors the pitch count? The "home" steam scorer?

Bob

That's the bad part about it. Any violations must be self-reported. Part of the rule is that opposing coaches cannot object concerning pitch count violations and there is no official record of pitch counts. How hard would it be to simply require coaches to input pitch counts via Max Preps after every game? CHSAA already has a rule requiring stats to be posted for all games on Max Preps. However, a lot of coaches have read this to mean nothing more than the final score and that's all they report.

It was two of the smaller classifications in the state that put forth motions to delay implimentation for one year (one moved to strike it completely). the major fear of small schools is that they have small rosters and not enough pitching as it is. You are also right that teams generally don't play back-to-back days anyway. Where this will have a major affect is in the loser's bracket of the state playoffs where a team might be required to play as many as four games over two days.

Luv - I can see that you are not from the NE or the Midwest.  HS in the those areas will play back to back to back to back to back.  5 games in a row is not uncommon when you may get no games in during March and early April.  Last year my son's HS team had a stretch of 4 games in 3 days and another of 4 games in 4 days.  Lots of 3 games in 5 days as well.

Pitch count rules make sense to me.

With my guy we follow the 1 pitch-1 hour rest. Even with that I still have to be at all games 2016 pitches in or a 120-135 pitch count could be in the cards.I am in midwest also.WITHOUT and weather cancelled games we have 3 stretches of 7 games in 6 days with sat. being a DH to let the kids that don't play much get in a game.Pitching isn't a top cencern for those.

"The general consensus was people were wondering who was going to monitor it," Rosales said in regards to chatter in the 2A ranks. "It comes down to people monitoring their own teams. You're not going to have somebody from CHSAA monitoring everybody's pitch count or knowing who pitched the day before or two days ago. It's going to be self-monitoring and the honesty of the coaches."