Was it LL? Was there possibly a medically inclined spectator present?

I'm gonna put on my beowulf37 hat here for one second:

"FOR GOD'S SAKE! PROTECT THECHILDREN"

Phew, now that I got that out of the way, I'm probably going to find a phone number of whomever and make a call to report the situation. Maybe the child is indeed a drama queen. Maybe dad is an a$$hole. Either way its not my call, but I will bring the pimple to a head and make a phone call.

A number of years ago I was sitting in the stands watching a League Championship Game in Senior Softball.

Top of the last inning, Vistors up by 6 runs.  One out and a runner on 1st.

Batter hits a single to right, R1 tries to go to 3rd.  Throw comes in runner slides and is safe.

Ball thrown back to the pitcher but the runner is still laying on the ground, holding her ankle.

3rd base coach asks for time, he and the manager examine the girl.

They "help her up" so she can stand on 3rd base.  They only have 9 players so no sub.

Manager talks to the girl going up to bat who strikes out on 3 pitches as does the next batter (out # 3).

The girl, who had been playing 2nd, "hobbles" out to right field.

The Home team comes up to bat and doesn't score, game over.

F1 and F7 run out to right field to "help" the girl back to the dugout.

The girl is taken to hospital for X-Rays - results: broken ankle.

Her father (a local lawyer) was a coach and the manager was a local doctor (a very good one).

To my knowledge nothing was ever done about "the incident".

Nell, I must commend you on your instincts, because in LL, chances are we all have or had kids in the game.  And no one likes to see a child get hurt.

But I want to share with you something I did about 10 years ago.

Sitch:  A kid is coming off a broken arm; he has a thin, fiberglass cast and an Ace wrap.  Coach asks me if that is OK.  I say, no!  "Casts of any kind are not authorized."

In the 4th inning, they tried to put the kid into right field AFTER they took off the cast!  I would not let the kid play!  (Even had words with the manager as he was trying to call the UIC on his cell phone.  I should have beamed this clown!  Oh, he was the league VP!)

Anyway, I posted that sitch on eteamz, and I routinely got borehogged by the responses back.  Unless I am Marcus Welby (or maybe play a doctor on TV), I should stay out of medical issues.  If I do something wrong, the League and I can get sued.  And in the case of the kid who took the cast off, he was now compliant with the rules!  I should have let him play!  To this day, I felt I did the right thing, but the old heads here said I technically did not apply the rules correctly.  If the kid had been further injured, it would have been the manager's lawsuit to deal with.

So, Nell, it isn't your job to be a medical man;  but between you and me, don't EVER quit being a "Dad".

Cheers!

Mike CVUA

Mike CVUA:

In your broken arm situation quite possibly a Little League regulation pertaining to an injured player may of been overlooked.

If applicable, and  if the subject injured player--[broken arm}-- had missed seven(7) continuous days of participation, a doctor or other accredited medical provider must give written permission for the subject player to return to baseball activity.

[Missing seven continuous days for a broken arm is not unusual. "Activity" and "continuous days of participation" would include practices and games].

Again, if in fact seven days was missed, absent that written  medical okay, the kid doesn't play.----Umpires, board members, managers, coaches, parents, are out of the loop except for securing and/or viewing the written medical okay required by LL Inc.

Frank!