The day will work like this. Team A vs Team B will be at 12pm. Both teams should have all of their players readily available. There will be extra people there who didnt sign up but wish to play, that may be picked up first come first serve. Team C vs Team D will be directly after. Then both winning teams will play for bragging rights until next year. Teams should have their batting orders ready for umpire. As of right now all teams have between 10-12 players There will be 10 players on the field (pitcher, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, SS, and 4 outfielders) To be as fair as posiible extra players should be rotated every inning and everyone should be in batting order. Field Rules: PITCHING: LEGAL DELIVERY. a. The pitcher must not make any motion to pitch without immediately delivering the ball to the batter. b. The pitcher must not use a pitching motion in which, after having the ball in both hands in the pitching position, he removes one hand from the ball, takes a backward and forward swing, and returns the ball to both hands in front of the body. c. The pitcher must not use a windup in which there is a stop, or reversal, of the forward motion. d. The pitcher must not make two revolutions of the arm on the windmill pitch. However, he may drop his arm to the side and to the rear before starting the windmill motion. This allows the arm to pass the hip twice. e. The delivery must be an underhanded motion, with the hand below the hip and the wrist not farther from the body than the elbow ***Basically no fake throws. DEFENSIVE POSITIONING. a. The pitcher shall not deliver a pitch unless all defensive players, except the catcher who must be in the catchers box, are positioned in fair territory. With a runner on third base trying to score by means of a squeeze play or steal, no defensive player may 1. Step on, or in front of, home plate without the ball, or 2. Touch the batter or bat. PENALTY: The ball is dead. The batter shall be awarded first base on the obstruction and all runners shall advance one base on the illegal pitch. BATTING: THE BATTER IS OUT. a. When the third strike is: 1. swung at and missed and the ball touches any part of the batters person. 2. not swung at and the pitched ball hits the batter while the pitch is in the strike zone. b. When he bunts foul after the second strike. THE BATTER WALKS a. when 4 balls are thrown b. hit by a pitch THE BATTER BECOMES A BATTER-RUNNER. a. When he legally hits a fair ball. b. When the catcher fails to catch the third strike before the ball touches the ground and 1. There are less than two outs and first base is unoccupied, or 2. There are two outs. This is known as the third strike rule. PROTESTS THAT WILL NOT BE RECEIVED. Protests shall not be received, or considered, if they are based solely on a decision involving the accuracy of judgment on the part of an umpire, or if the team lodging the protest won the game. Examples of protest that will not be considered are a. Whether a batted ball was fair, or foul. b. Whether a runner was safe, or out. c. Whether a pitched ball was a strike, or a ball. d. Whether a pitch was legal, or illegal. e. Whether a runner did, or did not, touch a base. f. Whether a runner left the base too soon on a caught fly ball. g. Whether a fly ball was, or was not, caught legally. h. Whether it was, or was not, an Infield Fly. i. Whether there was, or was not, an interference. j. Whether there was, or was not, an obstruction. k. Whether a player, or live ball, did or did not, enter a dead ball area, or touch some object or person in a dead ball area. l. Whether a batted ball did, or did not, clear the fence in flight. m. Whether the field is fit to continue, or resume, play. n. Whether there is sufficient light to continue play. o. Any other matter involving only the accuracy of the umpires judgment. Sec. 2. PROTESTS THAT WILL BE RECEIVED. Protests that shall be received and considered include matters of the following types a. Misinterpretation of a playing rule. b. Failure of an umpire to apply the correct rule to a given situation. c. Failure to impose the correct penalty for a given violation. NOTE: 1. Protests for the above must be made before the next pitch, or before all infielders have left fair territory or, if on the last play of the game, before the umpires leave the playing field. 2. After one pitch has been thrown (legal or illegal), no change can be made on any umpire’s ruling.
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