jofus wrote:Prevents coaches from putting their worst player behind the plate, like they do in LL Pony League (coach or machine pitch), when it doesn't matter?
Which helps protects the umpires?
It also keeps me from calling drop balls as often as I would like with 2 strikes....
Someone asked this question in the last couple of years and there was a post that said that the D3K rule dates back to the earliest years of baseball. I used the rule and misused the rule back when we were in the 10u rec league years, we faced a team with a pitcher that threw smoke as well as wild. A couple of our kids would get to 2 strikes and then if they got a wild smoker, they would swing and run for first. Not the purpose of the rule but we used to get base runners in a game where we didnt get many and we won with it.