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Okay, LL Minor Game (Playoffs), I’m working the plate. Scorekeeper is one of the away teams (Dodgers) parents. Home team is the Braves. Top of the 5th (Braves losing 9-1) and if the Braves don’t score the game is over due to mercy. 1 out. Batter gets a hit and is on first. Scorekeeper asks me to call time, calls me over to let me know the Braves are batting out of order and she was having trouble keeping score because of it. (This was the 2nd time, caught it earlier and immediately corrected, and I let her know I don’t call it out and we address if the other team catches it). This time the runner on 1st was out of order. I called the Braves head coach over from 3rd base coach as I didn’t know yet that the runner on first was the out of order batter.

I let him go talk to the scorekeeper and then the Dodger gets involved.

Now that Dodgers coach is included I felt the need to do something. So I tried to replace the current batter with the correct one and resume the current count of 0-1 (Dodgers coach was okay with that). When I realized I couldn’t do that because the correct batter was on 1st I called the runner on 1st out.

Now we’re at 2 outs and the batter grounds out to end the game.

I feel like moving forward I need to make it 1000% clear to the scorekeeper that I don’t need to know about batters out of order. It’s the coaches responsibility to catch it and address it with me.

Or am I wrong and have the scorekeeper let me know but I shouldn’t address it.

Btw this was a continuous batting order.

I was trying to find away to let the kids play

I need one for my big head. 7 7/8, but the ones online say XL only goes to 7 5/8. Anyone know of any that will fit someone with a big ass head?

Tied game bottom of the 5th in a LL minors game. Bases loaded and 2 outs. We’re also past 2 hours so final inning.

Kid fouls the ball straight to the backstop. Catcher acting as if it’s a past ball, and so was the runner at third.

I signal foul and also yell foul even though it wasn’t really necessary because I felt it was pretty obvious.

Parents are screaming because it’s a tense situation apparently the coach and the catcher didn’t hear or see the foul call.

Coach comes half way down to home plate from dugout and yells that I need to make it more obvious it was a foul because his catcher was acting as if it was live.

By this time he’s back peddling towards the dugout but still talking. I called time took off my mask and went down to let him know what the foul mechanic was and told him I did yell foul and my tone and voice were a little louder than usual.

I hadn’t done that all year and I never came close to ejecting someone but if he would have continued I could have gotten there.

He did apologize after the game and came and shook my hand and thanked me for working the game.

Anyway, thoughts? Should I have done (not eject just walk down there) that or just gave him the “glance”.