Does anyone know if there is a limit to offensive timeouts/meetings per inning?Also does a running substitution count as a timeout? I have asked a few umpires and I have gotten different answers. Asking for a friend.
Re: IHSA rule
Posted by CwA on December 6, 2023, 7:39 am, in reply to "IHSA rule"
If IL follows the NFHS rules, offense is allowed one charged conference per inning:
ART. 2 ... Each team, when on offense, may be granted not more than one charged conference per inning to permit the coach or any of that team's personnel to confer with base runners, the batter, the on-deck batter or other offensive team personnel. The umpire shall deny any subsequent offensive team requests for charged conferences . This offensive team charged conference rule coverage is effective when the ball first becomes live at the start of each half inning . Time granted for an obviously incapacitated player shall not constitute a charged conference.
Note that if the defense calls for a charged conference, the offense is permitted to have one (uncharged) as well.
Conferences and time-outs are two different things. While a conference is always a time-out, there are many other examples of time-outs that aren't conferences. Offense will call for time to send in a pinch runner, but just sending in a pinch runner is not a charged conference (however, if the offensive had a meeting with batter/runners and then subbed out a runner, that would be a charged conference)
Re: IHSA rule
Posted by ALSO on December 7, 2023, 1:46 pm, in reply to "Re: IHSA rule"
When the defense calls for a charged conference, the offense is permitted to have an uncharged conference as well which is what you see regularly.
The coach with his/her players on defense can also use an uncharged conference when the offense uses a charged conference. Something you don't see regularly, but is legal and can be utilized as long as it does not delay the game!