Hardball In The Courtroom
May 29th 2007ericjhoroHigh School
Oh those pesky lineup cards. They are at the heart of a dispute that has led the Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin high school baseball team to file a restraining order on an Ohio state playoff game. The order seeks to resume a game the team was forced to forfeit, and it also requests the temporary postponement of the subsequent playoff game featuring the team that beat them.
The dispute arose during last week’s regional championship game when NDCL brought in a pitcher who was not on the 18 man lineup card. The team claims the player had played in the previous game and was left off the lineup card by accident. The player then threw one pitch, at which point the opposing team alerted the umpires that the player was not on the card. After a series of phone calls to the Ohio High School Athletic Association, the game was ruled a forfeit due to the use of an ineligible player.
NDCL claims that according to the rules the player should have been ejected, and the game should have resumed at the point he entered. Hence the restraining order, which hopes to prevent any baseball from being played until the matter is resolved. See Elijah, you’re not the only baseball player who has recently become familiar with restraining orders.
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