Yesterday Tyler's baseball ended in some controversy. The A's (Tyler's team) were the home team and the Marlins were the visitors. It was a good game each team getting hits and scoring runs and towards the end of the game the Marlins were ahead 3-2. Before the last inning one of the Marlin parents yelled out that the time limit of 1:45 was coming up in about 10 minutes and that the game should be over. Our coach wanted to play out the last inning and there was some grumbling but the game went on. The Marlins went down without scoring and the A's were up. To summarize there were 2 outs and the bases were loaded and the next batter was our best hitter. He starts walking toward the batter's box and the Marlin parents tell the umpire to call time limit/game over. Oh, you got to be kidding me! The coach tried to get the last up at bat and finish out the inning but no. IT"S IN THE RULES!! Games are 1:45 long and that's final.
It was really hard on the kids to see/hear the parents arguing over something so trivial. Yeah, technically we were out of time but it was awful for the kids to not be able to finish their inning since we're the home team. It was unfortunate that some of the parents could not be have more sportsmanship to allow the home team to complete the inning. I was disgusted by some of the parents and kids' behavior on the Marlins because the main complainer is from Tyler's school; it's just a game and these kids are 8-9 years old. So the coach was nice and told the A's that in his opinion, they won the game. Oh well, I'll just say what comes around, goes around. Karma.
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