Comp wrote:I cant remember if it was an ASA Gold national championship I was watching or a college game, but saw the same thing happening. The entire infield would descend on the pitching circle every half inning and tear it up, then the next half inning they would have to call the grounds crew to fill in the huge hole and repack the ground for the other pitcher. As I recall, they finally ruled after a couple of innings only the pitcher could mess with the circle and they started strictly enforcing the 1 minute between innings on the girl who kept tearing up the circle.
Based on what you say, it could not have been a college game; which has the "however long the team coming out on defense wants" between innings rule.
OK, there is an experimental rule this year in the P5 conference games only. But that obviously wasn't what you saw, either, as no major conference pitcher would do this.