Cap Rules for 2017 Season

Coaches will pitch to start the season.There will bea new pitching rubber in the field boxes at C3 and C4 that can be placed on the field with spikes driven thru it to maintain its position.

There will be a CAP pitching clinic which will help to enable more kids to pitch more adequately this season.

With coach pitching there will be no called strikes/balls, so no walks will be issued.  Strikeouts will be called on swinging strikes only.  If a player swings at 3 pitches from a coach and misses he is ruled out.  Coach must make batter aware how many strikes they have at all times. Coach that is pitching will call out the number of strikes after each pitch. If a ball is hit in fair territory, it is considered a batted hit ball and the batter should run to first. The ball should be fielded by the pitcher position or the catcher position player with any necessary assistance from the coach pitching or the coach behind home plate. One of the players should be at the catcher position (with or without catchers gear and either kneeling down in proper catcher position with gear or standing to the side behind a coach without gear) Coach who is fielding behind home plate is to be the catcher if no player is in that position for a possible play at home plate on a batted ball.

There will be 3 outs per inning and then switch from offense to defense.

The max a team can score in innings 1- 5 is 5 runs. There is no limit on runs scored in the last inning. If both teams have equal # of runs after 6 innings, game ends in a tie.

     Players can’t advance on overthrows. They can take 2 bases if a ball is hit cleanly into the outfield (without an error by the infielder) so a hit double for the batter, a runner would advance to third from 1st base, and advance to home from 2nd base. Runners should only advance 2 bases on a “well” batted ball that is hit past the outfielders, not on an error by the infielder or an error by that outfielder. There is NO advancing on an overthrow from a defensive player. Play is considered dead. A fielding error on a batted ball by an infielder could allow a base runner to advance at his own risk, but only one base. A player on second base does not score unless batter advances to second base on batted ball.

      Position players in the field as catcher, pitcher position, 4 infielders and 4 outfielders…if you only have 9 players, do not position a pitcher. Players should be set in the field at positions similar to play in the Minors division. Pitcher position, catcher, 4 infielders and four outfielders (or 5 if you have more than 10 players). Outfielders should play on grass in the standard outfield positions –LF, LCF, CF, RCF, RF-, not in gaps behind the infield.

The coach that is pitching will be the umpire at all bases…close calls go to the runner; Remember also that a defensive player who makes a great fielding  play should be awarded with getting out called.

There will be no bunting, leading or stealing. Runners on base need the ball to be hit before they can move off the base. Score will be kept and it will be posted on the website.