Here's something to ponder this week as the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association baseball tournament continues through at least one rain date, with the possibility of another, if weather forecasts for later in the week are accurate: It may not be enough to regulate a pitcher's innings, as the MPSSAA does. You also have to keep an eye on pitch counts.

The MPSSAA wisely limits the number of innings that a pitcher can work in a seven calendar day period to 14, and to 10 in a three calendar day period. But there are no ceilings on the number of pitches within those innings, and that could be the rub, especially for kids down the line.

By the way, those innings restrictions stay in effect through the postseason, and could really come back to bite clubs that have, say, just one or two good starters this week.