League Rules
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1. Season games can be played with 12 players in the field, tournament games and ALL playoff games will have a field of 11 players only and everybody can bat.
2. If a player gets hurt and cannot finish, we will skip the batter and he is not an out.
3. Schedule time for all games is the time appearing on the schedule given to the managers. There will be a 10-minute grace period from the posted start time, if at that time a team is still not ready for play they will forfeit. If any game goes past the start time of the next there will be 15 minutes before the start of the next game.
4. No new inning can start after 1 hour and 10 minutes of play. The inning ends when the third out is made in the bottom of an inning. If the first game of the day runs late we will lower the time limit to 1 hour.
5. Rovers have to start in the grass you can only have 4 infielders.
6. If you borrow another teams player they MUST bat last but they can play anywhere in the field. Games can start with 8 players with the opposing team supplying a catcher for the team with 8 players. Pitcher covers home. Players can be added immediately upon arrival after the game starts. If they are not in the lineup they must bat last, if they are in the lineup and do not arrive in time to bat in position it will be an out.
7. No metal spikes!
8. Run rule of 13 after 5 innings during regular season only. No run rule or time limit in playoff games.
10. Home team for all playoff games is the team with the better regular season record, in the case of a tie we will use head to head record and then head to head total runs if those all tie we will use the coin toss to decide home team.
11. All batters will start with a one and one count. Allowed 2 foul ball
12. All runners must touch the courtesy bag (bag on the right) while running to first base, unless rounding to go to second base.
13. A ball hit over the hill in right field will only be considered a homerun if the ball can clearly be seen going over the hill and not seen bounce on top. If the ball bounces on top of the hill and goes into the brush it will be considered a ground role double.
14. All players must slide at home or they will be considered out. And may be thrown out of the game.
15. Only league bats are allowed to be used.
16. This is a league for fun, profanity and inappropriate behavior will NOT be tolerated! If you are thrown out of a game you must serve a (1) game suspension. If you are thrown out of a second game you will be out of the league for the rest of the year pending a league managers vote.
17. In order for a player to be eligible for the play-offs the player must have a minimum of 20 at-bats to qualify