I'm amazed at the few troll-type comments on here. Competitive sports ruin plenty of good people thanks to precisely that kind of attitude. Talent scouts or no, it's about having fun playing a GAME. The opposing team helping someone around the bases is not an act of fraud, it's a symbol of respect for her as a player and a recognition of the first home-run of her college career.
Technically, they could have made her crawl around all the bases, or they could have simply let her be disqualified, but that's hardly what I would call good sportsmanship...sounds a lot more like being a callous dick like the troll commenters.
Everyone in favor of organized sports leagues claims that sports make the players better people. THIS is evidence of that. If the other team had simply shrugged and said, "Hey, not my problem," allowing her to be disqualified, it would have just been another in a LONG list of evidence that organized sports just make dicks out of good people.
Technically, they could have made her crawl around all the bases, or they could have simply let her be disqualified, but that's hardly what I would call good sportsmanship...sounds a lot more like being a callous dick like the troll commenters.
Everyone in favor of organized sports leagues claims that sports make the players better people. THIS is evidence of that. If the other team had simply shrugged and said, "Hey, not my problem," allowing her to be disqualified, it would have just been another in a LONG list of evidence that organized sports just make dicks out of good people.