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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Each of my kids has had a season where their team won every game and honestly, I didn't love it even though they did. You get nothing out of that.[/quote]

My daughter just had a season like this. Her little league softball team won every game. [b]They had by far the best pitcher. My daughter was probably 2nd-3rd best in the 6 team league, but barely got to pitch because the dad of the other girl was the coach and pitched her all the time. [/b]Anytime the game was close, the other girl pitched all 4 or 5 innings. Mine was the only other girl to pitch on the team, getting an inning or rarely two in a blow out.

Both girls made all-stars but in different age groups. My daughter was told she wasn’t going to get to pitch because she didn’t get enough  experience during the season. [/quote]

Hate to break it to you, but it sucks to be a softball pitcher.  It's not like baseball where 5 kids are in the starting rotation and then you have relievers.

Did you watch any of the College World Series?  Some teams ride 1 pitcher for the Regionals, Super Regionals and the World Series because you can.

The HS softball teams in the area do the same thing.

I guess it's OK for a kid to throw like 600 softball pitches in a week...though it doesn't sound like it should be.
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Another softball pitcher parent here. This is true in school ball, but adamantly not in rec or travel ball. In travel ball when girls are playing a minimum of 3 or 4 games in a weekend the teams need at least 3 (and usually more) decent pitchers. In rec ball - with the exception, weirdly, of Little League (though I think they have pitch count limits) - there are strict participation rules that mean teams need at least 2 pitchers and coaches are usually smart enough to realize they need to develop pitchers. On a rec team my kids were on this season there was typically a new pitcher every inning except in close games, and even girls who really weren't good got to pitch to a batter or two. On our travel team I think they cycled through 3 or 4 pitchers most games.[/quote]

Does travel softball have pitchcount or inning rules?[/quote]

No, and some coaches abuse it, but at least of the teams I've seen most will basically pitch a different girl for each Saturday game, or rotate between a couple innings for each girl. Admittedly I mostly pay attention to younger age groups, but these teams need to rest their best pitchers to win games in elimination brackets on Sunday.[/quote]

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