Warm up pitches

He gets 8 warmups.

Thanks dash - now if he was coming back in to pitch after leaving the mound to play third then he would only get 5 warm ups. Is that correct?

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Originally posted by coach2709:
Thanks dash - now if he was coming back in to pitch after leaving the mound to play third then he would only get 5 warm ups. Is that correct?

I could be wrong, but I think any relief pitcher gets 8, even if he is returning to the mound.

Nope. He still gets 8.

In the NFHS Rule book. Rule 6-2 article 2
under NOTE:
The starting Pitchers may warm up by using not more than 8 throws, completed in 1 minute (timed from first throw) A relief Pitcher gets the same 8 throws in 1 minute.

After that they only get 5 in between innings.

Thanks guys and I'm glad I now know the guy gets 8 even if he's re-entering as a pitcher.

Get this one tonight. Bottom of the first our pitcher goes out for his warm ups. The plate ump tells him he only gets 5 warm ups and holds him to that. We tell him he's wrong and he says he knows the rules. Then later in the game the other team has a new pitcher come in and he gets 9 warm ups because we counted them and started chirping at 6.

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Originally posted by coach2709:


Get this one tonight. Bottom of the first our pitcher goes out for his warm ups. The plate ump tells him he only gets 5 warm ups and holds him to that. We tell him he's wrong and he says he knows the rules. Then later in the game the other team has a new pitcher come in and he gets 9 warm ups because we counted them and started chirping at 6.

Chirping at a bad umpire will not make him better. Report your experience to his assignor and leave it at that.

You get good ones and bad ones. Some coaches chirp at both.

Dash you are 100% correct and I'll be honest with you - the next thing I'm about to say is the dumbest thing a coach can ever do BUT you have no idea how good it feels to chirp at a guy who isn't very good. That is immature and not very smart in terms of "getting" calls from a bad ump but it is.

I'll be honest with you and say we really don't chirp that much and if you ever got to do our game with a bad partner I feel you would think this. I've found out the more I chirp the more my guys start to use this as a crutch for failure. I don't want that - I want them to focus on playing and executing in the game.

There's just times when that guy has rubbed you the wrong way with a "I know the rules" comment when he's blantantly wrong.

One of our umps tonite had his stopwatch out and told us he was going to give us 1 minute between every inning.... I don't think it ever became an issue... Both teams had back up catchers out there right away when needed

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Originally posted by trojan-skipper:
One of our umps tonite had his stopwatch out and told us he was going to give us 1 minute between every inning.... I don't think it ever became an issue... Both teams had back up catchers out there right away when needed

Some areas have begun to use the "one minute" limit as a speed up tool.