Liberty College baseball may have a tough time dwelling down what occurred to their roster on Saturday.
Throughout a weekend that Liberty was slated to play Jacksonville State in a three-game collection, the workforce went 1-3, together with a loss that they have been pressured to forfeit because of not together with a beginning pitcher on the roster.
Forward of the collection that included one recreation on Friday and a doubleheader on Saturday, groups have been required to submit their 27-player roster that might function gamers who would take part within the video games.
The Flames’ roster was with out Ben Blair, who was scheduled to start out in Recreation 2, and Jacksonville State’s supervisor took discover.
He waited for Blair to step onto the mound and throw his first pitch within the recreation earlier than alerting the umpires in Saturday’s first recreation, figuring the sophomore hurler can be faraway from the sport or there can be a forfeit.
It ended up being the latter, as Convention USA has a rule that states a workforce has to forfeit if it makes use of an ineligible participant in a recreation, and Liberty waved the white flag and misplaced 9-0.
Jacksonville State’s X account boasted over the win and caught some flak from different customers on the platform.
“Super Unclassy by the Jax state staff to wait until after the first pitch. That’s not sportsmanship. Extremely disappointing,” one person wrote.
“If I’m a JSU fan I’m really embarrassed by that bush league move,” one other wrote.
Some sided with Jacksonville State in that Liberty shouldn’t have had a bonus in utilizing a twenty eighth man off the eligible roster. Others blamed the Flames supervisor outright.
“Perhaps the LU head coach will pay more attention to filling out his series roster card in the future since it was his error…” an X person wrote.
Liberty stated the mishap was a “clerical error,” based on Bryson Gordon of Newsadvance.com.
Friday’s opener was gained by the Flames 9-8, however after the forfeit on Saturday, they misplaced the second recreation to Jacksonville State, 6-1.
They’re 19-10 this season and Blair holds an ERA of two.67.
