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State Championship

L louisiana09100+ posts
OK, I was not sure where to post this, but since this is about a coach I will post it here. Maybe some of you coaches can explain this to me. 15-16 age group, State Championship Game (finals), starting pitcher throws 14 pitches in 3 innings to 9 players, he is pitching a perfect game, we are up 5 to -0. Guess what? Coach pulls him and replaces him with a kid who never showed for practice or a game. Coach had been holding a spot on the team for him and I guess he had promised the kid he would play, not sure. Kid did really bad, by the time the coach pulls pitcher #2 it is 6 to 5, we are losing. Coach benches the current shortstop and puts pitcher #2 at shortstop. WOW, this was a nightmare. Now starting pitcher and the current shortstop who were having the game of their life are on the bench. Luckily, the team had enough in them to battle back and win the game. This was the most shocking scenario I have ever seen in baseball. Can someone please explain why a coach would ever, ever, pull a kid pitching a perfect game in the finals of a State Championship. The only explanation I have heard is "that was the game plan", WOW.
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L louisiana09100+ posts
Will,

I promise you, there is nothing more behind it, game was going great, pitcher #1 great kid, never negative, always motivating the team. As a matter of fact, after pitcher #1 was pulled, he continued to do what he usually does when on the bench, hustled bats and foul balls and helped the catcher with his equipment. I really think most kids would have sat on the bench and pouted. I guess outrageous is in style these days. The coach did admit his mistake to pitcher #1 and the team afterwards.
L louisiana09100+ posts
Will,

After the game, the kids walked out of the dugout looking like they had just lost the state championship instead of winning it (it was heartbreaking). They looked very dissapointed. Hopefully the Coach learned a very big lesson, which I am sure he did. He let down a great group of kids. The team starts regional playoffs this Saturday, hopefully they can come back with the same motivation as they had when the state tournament began.
C Coachric1,000+ posts
You say champinship for 15-16 year olds. A lot of the recent events could have dictated what happened in that game. Maybe, we'll speculate, that the pg pitcher had reached a predetermined pitch limit. Had he pitched in a recent game, day before possibly? Was the replacement promised more playing time and maybe his folks went after the coach about it? I am sure this is not a school team, probably a travel team of some sort, so all kids pay the same amount and all are usually told they will get pt. The championship shouldn't mean too much, but I am sure it did for both the coach and players as they worked hard to get there.
I have seen stranger things.

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