‘You’re cheating these kids!’: Umpire ends youth baseball game at the time limit. Then a mom starts yelling—and follows him to his car

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For every little kid in sports who’s just delighted to be playing, there’s one tightly wound parent taking the whole thing a bit too seriously. Overbearing parents can ruin baseball for everyone.

An umpire says a single fall ball game showed him just how true that can be.

‘I got out of it after that first year’

Content creator Biggzy (@biggzy_21) shares why he quit umpiring youth baseball. His video has more than 96,000 views.

“I umpired Little League Baseball and U-Triple-SA [USSSA] Baseball for a year, and I got out of it after that first year, and let me explain one of the reasons why,” Biggzy says. “Now keep in mind with 9U fall ball specifically, the kids that are playing in this league are just transitioning from coach pitch to kid pitch. So this is like their very first experience ever with kid pitch.”

Biggzy says the fall rules were looser as a result. This included time limits.

“Drop-dead hour time limit. Doesn’t really matter which team’s batting,” Biggzy says. “We don’t even have the scoreboard on. Like, one of the teams only has eight players because the entire team couldn’t make it.”

To illustrate how far away from pro sports these games are, Biggzy says some of the kids were still 8 years old. One in the outfield just sat on the grass. He says another was eating dirt at second base. Finally, he adds that he established the one-hour drop-dead time limit at a prior coaches’ meeting.

But then, it was game time.

‘You’re cheating these kids out of time!’

Over the course of the ball game, one team got ahead with a big lead. Ultimately, though, they couldn’t get the ball over the plate.

“They walk in a ton of runs, and we get to the point where the game is tied,” he says. “And the bases are loaded with like two minutes left … I call ball game.”

That was when a woman in the stands began “screaming” at Biggzy, insisting that there was still time left in the game.

“No, ma’am, it’s one-hour drop-dead time limit as soon as the coach’s meeting ends,” Biggzy says he told her. She allegedly replied, “You’re cheating these kids out of time.”

Unfortunately, things escalated further. Biggzy says the woman followed him to his car as he was leaving. According to him, she was chastising him the whole way there.

“She’s just in my ear this entire time,” Biggzy says. “I am sitting here thinking to myself, I just made $30 to sit behind the plate for an hour and watch these kids roll the ball up to the plate.”

Biggzy points to this example as the primary driver behind the “official shortage in pretty much all of youth sports.”

“The main reason is because y’all parents be crazy,” he says.

Who decides when a youth baseball game ends?

For baseball games, time limits usually come from the league or tournament rather than the umpire. However, umpires typically run the clock.

Referee Magazine says that organizers set the limits, and that umpire crews should settle when the clock starts and who keeps time before the game.

The start can count as the first pitch or the end of the plate meeting. Referee Magazine says that typically, no new innings begin after the limit, but some weekend tournaments use a hard stop mid-inning, with the score reverting to the last completed inning.

In regard to Little League specifically, 2026 Little League rules say that umpire judgment calls are final and not protestable. The rules also say that local leagues set written ground rules, which must be reviewed with managers and the umpire and cannot override the rulebook.

Biggzy is not the only umpire who’s clashed with parents.

CBS Boston reported in 2025 that Massachusetts youth leagues were struggling to recruit umpires.

Dorsan Delisle, umpire director for Bellingham Youth Baseball, said, “[Umpires] that have been doing this for a while now are kind of getting a little tired with dealing with parents who are harassing them.”

He called parent behavior “out of control.”