11-yr-old baseball. Tournament trophy day, single elimination. The games have a time limit, when it expires you finish the inning.
You're the home team, you have a 4-1 lead when you start a new inning with about 12 minutes left in the game.
So you tell your pitcher to stall. Step off the mound a ton. Once you let a runner on 1B, throw over there 5-6 times (as opposed to normal times, when you might throw over there once or twice an entire game.)
Then in the bottom of the inning, have your batters take every pitch until they have to swing.
Good gamesmanship? Poor sportsmanship? Both? Neither?
You're the home team, you have a 4-1 lead when you start a new inning with about 12 minutes left in the game.
So you tell your pitcher to stall. Step off the mound a ton. Once you let a runner on 1B, throw over there 5-6 times (as opposed to normal times, when you might throw over there once or twice an entire game.)
Then in the bottom of the inning, have your batters take every pitch until they have to swing.
Good gamesmanship? Poor sportsmanship? Both? Neither?
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