Pitch count violation ends season for Southern California baseball team

Nuview Bridge of Riverside County ousted from Southern Section Division 7 playoffs for violating individual pitch-limit rules

The Nuview Bridge-Nuevo baseball team was removed from the Southern Section 7 baseball tournament Monday for a pitch count violations. 

The Knights (14-6) on the regular season was scheduled to play Brentwood School  in a second-round game on Tuesday after recording a 4-0 win first-round win over Littlerock on Thursday. 

But a pitch count violation of bylaw 1500 and 1501 was cited, and now Littlerock will advance and Nuview Bridge's season is over after outscoring opponents 204-96 on the season. Littlerock (13-14) will host Brentwood (12-8) on Tuesday. 

A charter school of more than 600 students, Nuview Bridge's baseball program has gone 111-63 over its last 10 seasons.  

Individual pitchers can not surpass 30 outs or three appearances in a calendar week. There are also rules in place that prohibit excessive pitches on consecutive days. 

See the CIF rules and its release on the ruling below: 

New CIF ruling on pitch count

See more on this story later. 


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Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports
MITCH STEPHENS, SBLIVE SPORTS

Mitch Stephens is a senior editor at SBLive Sports for California, a state he's covered high school sports since 1984. He won multiple CNPA and CPSWA writing awards with the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle and MaxPreps.com before joining the SBLive staff in 2022. He's covered the beat nationally since 2007, profiling such athletes as Derrick Henry, Paige Bueckers, Patrick Mahomes, Sabrina Ionescu, Jayson Tatum, Chiney Ogwumike, Jeremy Lin and Najee Harris as preps. You can reach him at mitch@scorebooklive.com.