Baseball

Baseball (5.15)

1. Games:
All games start at 4:15 pm. No inning may begin after 5:45 pm (except play-offs). All games are maximum of five innings. Three innings constitute a game.

2. S.A.B.A. rules will prevail.

• A game cannot be forfeited due to player(s) having to attend another baseball game unless the team cannot field nine players.

3. League:

• Meginbir Division - (Schools East of Albert Street)
  Balfour, Campbell, Johnson, LeBoldus, Miller, Balgonie, Notre Dame
  
• Homme Division - (Schools West of Albert Street)
  Luther, Knoll, Martin, O'Neill, Riffel, Sheldon, Thom

4. Rules For League Games:

• Start at 4:15 pm
  
• No inning to start after 5:45 pm, except play-offs.
  
• Games are five innings
  
• * Motion - If a team is ahead by 10 runs after 4 innings of a league game and the coaches agree to play the final inning the score after the final inning will be the score of record
  
• In case of bad weather, three innings constitute a game.
  
• It is the home team's responsibility to re-schedule rain outs. It will be the assumption of all involved that the game will be played the following day if possible. The coach must contact the visiting team's coach, confirm a date for the playing of the game and then call the Commissioner. The Commissioner will call the Assigner and ensure that an umpire will be available for the rescheduled game.
  
• All league games that are tied after five innings will remain tied. No extra innings will be played.
• For all league games the Home and Visiting team will each supply two (2) baseballs.
• Home team has choice of Fist Base bench
• Umpire in Chief will assign base umpires for all league games and the home team will cover the cost.

5. Tie Breaking Procedures:

• Head-to-Head record between tied teams.
  
• In the event of three or more tied teams, difference between runs for and runs against in games played among those tied teams.

NOTE:
To alleviate "running up scores", a maximum difference of 7 runs in a game will be used in the calculations.

"If teams do not play an equal number of league games because of weather and resultant re-scheduling problems, we will use a percentage system to determine final order of finish.

(Example):
A team winning 4 games out of 8 played would have earned 8 points out of a possible 16 points or a 50% success rate. A team winning 3 games of 7 played would have earned 6 points out of a possible 14 points for a 43% success rate and therefore would finish below the team cited above.

6. Play-offs:

1. Quarter Finals

• The top four finishers qualify for the quarter finals:

  #4 Meginbir @ #1 Homme                   #4 Homme @ #1 Meginbir
  #3 Meginbir @ #2 Homme                   #3 Homme @ #2 Meginbir

2. Semi Finals

• Quarter finals winners will be re – shuffled and the semi finals math ups are as follows:

  Lowest Finisher @ Highest Finisher
  Third Lowest Finisher @ Second Lowest Finisher

• The Home Team will be the team with the best record.
  
• The Home team in the final will be decided by a flip of a coin if the two teams have identical records. Otherwise the team with the best winning record (% or otherwise) will be declared the home team.
  
• Mercy Rule: City Final 10 up after five innings.
  
• This game will be seven innings.
  
• Home games in the play-offs may only be played at fields with mounds.
• Home team will occupy First Base Bench
• For all Quarter Final and Semi Final games the Home team and the Visiting team will each supply two (2) baseballs.

7. All teams will use composite or wood bats.

Revised Jan 2009