High School BASEBALL game final score: 65-0

[FloridaMan88]

And the game was called off in the third inning. DAMN.


http://aol.sportingnews.com/sport/st...ecommended_1_4

High school baseball game ends in 65-0 'travesty'

Jeff Boyer has been a baseball coach at Licking Heights High School in Pataskala, Ohio, for 34 years, and he's never seen anything like it.

Boyer's Hornets beat Harvest Prep 65-0 on April 5 in a game called in the third inning. Licking Heights scored 16 runs in the first, 18 in the second and 31 in the third.

The numbers are predictably off the charts. Licking Heights had 48 hits, but the team also drew 13 walks and had 11 hit batters against a Harvest Prep team composed of mostly freshmen and sophomores.

"It's the most awkward I've ever felt in 34 years of coaching," Boyer said. "I didn't know what to feel. I wasn't happy. I felt bad for their kids and didn't know what to tell our kids."

Boyer told Sporting News the game took more than three hours and finally was called because of darkness. The Ohio High School Athletic Association calls for a 10-run mercy rule after five innings. Boyer wishes the game would've been called much sooner.

"We didn't run on passed balls; we didn't take extra bases or any of those kinds of things," Boyer said. "I even asked the umpire, 'What do you want us to do?'

"I asked if he wanted us to bunt and step on the plate, and he said he didn't want it to be a travesty of a game. And I'm thinking, 'We're already there.' "

The teams play again April 22, and Boyer said that issue will be addressed. Fortunately, there does not appear to be any ill will between the schools.

"I'm going to talk to the coach before the game," he said. "They've been run ruled in every game. We just happened to be the first to do it. I had no idea it was going to get that high, and we'll make sure it doesn't get that high again."

[Old Dog]

I've seen some messes while umpiring before but not that bad. I did tell a coach one time that he needed to let his kids know they had better come up swinging because anything in the same zip code was going to be a strike....score was somewhere around 25-0 after 2 innings and ended up about 35ish-0 after four.

[Amnorix]

Sounds like the coach was in a tough spot. I dunno what he could've done, but I imagine he probably should've told his boys "look, you swing at every pitch, and you HIT NOTHING, got it?"

[whoman69]

Game called after 3 innings on account of darkeness

[Deberg_1990]

If anything they called it too early. 3rd inning? Still lots of chances for Harvest Prep to bounce back.

[alnorth]

It looks bad, but I've got no problem with it. The winning team observed every unwritten rule of baseball.

When you are hopelessly ahead, you don't leg out doubles, you don't steal bases, you don't try to swing for the fence. You just take your cuts and play station-to-station baseball.

They should not start making outs on purpose. If they want to put in a sliding run rule where its 10 after 5, 20 after 4, 30 after 3, fine.

[gblowfish]

Did Kyle Davies start that game???

[seaofred]

When I was playing baseball, we beat some teams 35 to nothing. There were times our coach made us go up and hit left handed.

[Rain Man]

The losing team's pitcher was obviously getting tired in the third. They should have pulled him.

[Crush]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

The losing team's pitcher was obviously getting tired in the third. They should have pulled him.

He was tipping his pitches.

That's not any kind of fun for anybody.

[Garcia Bronco]

nice of them to shame these kids even more by annoucing it to the world.

[Dayze]

I must have been sleep walking and was the losing teams starting pitcher.

[duncan_idaho]

Have never seen that for a high school game. Have seen it a few times in little league and even pony league games.

Was on both sides of that a few times.

My first year in Little League, on a team full of 11-year-olds playing against 11-13 competition, we got demolished a few times (the next year, they made it a 10-12 league).

Had a pony league experience (when half our team was playing jr. legion ball somewhere as well as our local summer league) where we won 48-4 in four innings. THat's a tough spot to be in. You don't want to do things to show up the other team, and I don't think anything is worse than not trying...

[Pasta Little Brioni]

My crummy team beat the shittiest team I've ever laid eyes on like 35-3 in H.S. The opposing coach just forfeited in the 2nd...heh. Said we're done and pulled his boys off the field, hopped in the bus, and left. After tasting quite a few bad defeats, it did feel good.

[Mama Hip Rockets]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

Did Kyle Davies start that game???

No. He pitched the third. Hochevar pitched the first and Jonathan Sanchez pitched the second.