Manager Visits Please Help

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Originally posted by RobertHowington:
We have some coaches trying to bend the rules....

Trying to bend the rules in 10u?? How sad.

Depends on the umpire (I’m no umpire, but I argue with them a lot). I would post this in the Ask the umpire forum. You may get a better response.

I would guess that the coach talking to the pitcher would be considered a visit (especially if time was called). Between innings probably is not a visit because at the age of 10, the coach can write it off as "monitoring the young pitchers arm". Who would argue with that???

Ay my LL, where I was President last year, still Board involved this year, all coaches doing the first described action would be told it will count as a mound visit,especially if time is called. Now on the second, if the coach stops by the mound, say on his way back from the third base coaches box, on his way to the first base dugout, I might tend to be a little forgiving. But if he comes out of the dugout to go stand there then it may be an issue.

Where you have to be careful is that if you are playing by actual Little League rules,9not pony, dizzy dean of cal ripken) the little green book states that that the age group is "minors division" and by rule you can actually have a coach on the playing field during game time for instructional purposes.