This can't be true. :creepy:

No Way!

This score is ridiculous. No team deserves to be beat that badly. A team should never embarrass a team like this. This clearly shows how unsportsman like Eastern's coach is.

While I don't know the circumstances of this game, this seems like a pretty out of control score to me.

WOW!

Sounds typical. I know they left the Frank Shoop Classic and left Harrison County short a game.

Whatever WA did before the game, I hope they don't ever to that to Eastern again.

They are 1-8 and have scored 30 runs, while allowing 139. This makes the 3rd time, they have allowed 20± runs.

 

Eastern is a very good team and while I wasn't there, perhaps not being able to get anyone out, was also a factor.

1st time they scored more than 12 runs all year....43 is just too much.

I have umpired games for Whitefield's 6th and 7th grade age kids. This is Highview Baptist's school. Nice people. They don't have a tone of students and their ball team was very small. Noone should run up a score like this, but Whitefield also shouldn't schedule Eastern if they can't compete.

Wow, I glad Whitefield canceled their game with Trinity.

Line score in the Courier Journal, 43 runs on 32 hits with WA commitng 8 or 9 errors.

They are 1-8 and have scored 30 runs, while allowing 139. This makes the 3rd time, they have allowed 20± runs.

 

Eastern is a very good team and while I wasn't there, perhaps not being able to get anyone out, was also a factor.

 

 

Excluding the Eastern game, they had given up 96 totals run - an average of 12 runs per game. The Eastern score skews the statistics somewhat.

 

It is also interesting that Jeffersontown beat Eastern (7-2), yet when Jeffersontown played Whitefield, they held the score to a reasonable 21-0.

 

It is clear that Whitefield should not be scheduling opponents of this level. There is a huge difference between "challenging" your players and "overwhelming" them. However, it is also the responsibility of the stronger teams not to schedule opponents they know they will maul.

 

There are ways to keep a blowout score "reasonable" even if the other team is hurting their cause with walks and errors. I would suggest that Jeffersontown (21-0) and Dupont Manual (24-0) did just that when they played Whitefield. 43-0 is not reasonable. What was the message that was taught to the Eastern players? That humiliating your opponent for the sake of padding your statistics outweighs the responsibility to show some compassion, respect, and humility to a team and players that obviously aren't at your talent level?

 

Perhaps there is an unknown side to this story, but if not, the embarrassment in this score is not owned by the team that was shut out.

Excluding the Eastern game, they had given up 96 totals run - an average of 12 runs per game. The Eastern score skews the statistics somewhat.

 

It is also interesting that Jeffersontown beat Eastern (7-2), yet when Jeffersontown played Whitefield, they held the score to a reasonable 21-0.

 

It is clear that Whitefield should not be scheduling opponents of this level. There is a huge difference between "challenging" your players and "overwhelming" them. However, it is also the responsibility of the stronger teams not to schedule opponents they know they will maul.

 

There are ways to keep a blowout score "reasonable" even if the other team is hurting their cause with walks and errors. I would suggest that Jeffersontown (21-0) and Dupont Manual (24-0) did just that. 43-0 is not reasonable. What was the message that was taught to the Eastern players? That humiliating your opponent for the sake of padding your statistics outweighs the responsibility to show some compassion, respect, and humility to a team and players that obviously aren't at your talent level?

 

Perhaps there is an unknown side to this story, but if not, the embarrassment in this score is not owned by the team that was shut out.

Excellent post....I don't want anyone to think, I'm condoning this score or offering reasons. Usually in games with scores out of hand, it's often a combination of strength/weaknesses and at times, not "calling off the dogs".

 

I'll keep my personal opinions to myself, regarding the score. With that stated, I've seen a lot of Baseball over the years, alot....never, a total/margin of this magnitude.

Unless these teams are in the same district, they shouldn't be playing each other. Check that, if WA can't do any better than this, they need to drop out of KHSAA competition, because they clearly don't belong.