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Little Leaguer Ejected and Suspended One Game For This Bat Flip

by Larry Leo

July 23, 202524 Comments

On July 16, Marco Rocco crushed a home run in the sixth inning of a tournament game between Haddonfield Little League and Harrison Township and celebrated with this bat flip...

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Rocco was ejected and suspended one game. His father was not happy...

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"He’s played Little League his whole life, and his dream is to make it to the World Series in Williamsport," Rocco's father said, via NJ.com. "We’re in the state finals and are a couple of steps away. We’re on our way there, and now, they tell him he can’t play."

Joe Rocco said the umpire considered his son's bat flip a "safety concern." That's why he was tossed from last week's game.

"They wrote us a letter saying there’s a rule that says there’s no horse play in Little League, and they consider bat flipping horse play. Little League International openly promotes bat flipping all over their social media accounts, their websites and the broadcasts on TV for the Little League World Series. It’s openly promoted and encouraged. My son watches that and was emulating what he sees."

(The Spun)

Filed Under: MLB

Originally published on TigerDroppings.com

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SWAT•5 months

When you teach your kid to act like a hot dog, bad things happen Daddy.

double d•5 months

Ump made the right call, to much of the showboating crap today

denvertiger•5 months

Nice chance to let a life lesson be applied here...but they're going to look for legal relief instead? Our world makes more sense the more I watch youth sports

GeauxtigersMs36•4 months

Life lesson…. Playing a kids game as a kid it’s bad. Playing a kids game as an adult it’s all fun.
MLB does this with just about every big homerun. Let the kids be kids!

Mr. Misanthrope•4 months

Reminds me of the high school being recruited in Trouble With The Curve.

HunterDawg•5 months

If that was his dad at the end of the video celebrating, it's no wonder the kid is a dbag. Acorn/tree.

cubsfinger•5 months

I hope they keep him suspended. Keep that shite in the back yard.

GeauxtigersMs36•4 months

Or in every other part of baseball. Seriously, kid being a kid having fun and adults bashing him.

Jwils•4 months

So you'd call that a typical bat flip?

sulltiger•4 months

so, this is ok with you?

loopback•5 months

disgrace, what's worse is the father trying to excuse it and defend his son. This is the world now. Moral-less babies fighting to get their way.

SoFla Tideroller•5 months

The dad should be beaten with the bat. The kid didn't learn that in a vacuum.

grizzlylongcut•5 months

Good, quit allowing douchebag behavior out there.

crap4brain•5 months

They need to teach their kid not to be a dbag

Ghost of Colby•5 months

He’s a Rocco from NJ. It’s in his DNA.

Serraneaux•5 months

Future BaseVOL

GFY

GeauxTigers0107•4 months

How about teach your son not to be a little douchebag and none of this happens

BuzzSaw 12•5 months

Yo Rocco! If you were halfway worth a shite you'd be playing travel ball instead of rec league.

LSU FSU Grad•5 months

Oh yeah. That was excessive. Punishment fits for sure!

gpttigers•4 months

Fun is one thing, but this was incredibly excessive. Keep the flip lower than head height and there isn't an issue. Tossing it 30 feet in the air and you are gone. Baseball will have to teach you a lesson that your parents obviously didn't.

Saunson69•5 months

How does an emergency restraining order allow this get to get reinstated? Is there someone trying to stalk and kidnap him to prevent him from going to the state championship, and family getting an emergency restraining order on that stalker? This makes no sense.

DeafVallyBatnR•4 months

Throw him out of this game. But the next game suspension is more excessive than his bat flip.

mr bunion•4 months

Dang, playing "his whole life". a 1 yr old player is pretty impressive

ThatTahoeOverThere•5 months

Dont throw that weak arse trash over the plate and none of this happens.

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