Rules need to be updated
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:34 am
In italics are my conerns, aftere the rules in bold
- Stray Balls - Extra, spare baseballs should be kept in foul territory, out of the field of play, or inside pockets or gloves that won't be used for fielding. Any time a pitcher throws a pitch to his own team while there is still a pile of baseballs on or around the mound, the batting team will be warned. At the next violation, the batter will be issued a strike. Each new person that goes out to pitch is eligible for a warning before his team is penalized. A batter can strike out if this scenario occurs after a warning while the batter already has two strikes.
this was more for DeFem than C.F. Can we strike this from the book?
-Score-keepers hold the final authority to award a hit to a batter, rather than an error. Also, the score-keeper decides if a hit is an extra-base hit, or if the batter reached extra bases due to an error.
I this should be clairifed to say "The official score at the time of the play inquestion has the final call on the decision." Maybe this is nit-picking, but this it could help.
- Before pitching to your own team, always look around to make sure the defense is ready.
Or else... what?
Also, maybe something should be written about when a fucked up play by the batting team's pitcher is an automatic out, or just and error
- Stray Balls - Extra, spare baseballs should be kept in foul territory, out of the field of play, or inside pockets or gloves that won't be used for fielding. Any time a pitcher throws a pitch to his own team while there is still a pile of baseballs on or around the mound, the batting team will be warned. At the next violation, the batter will be issued a strike. Each new person that goes out to pitch is eligible for a warning before his team is penalized. A batter can strike out if this scenario occurs after a warning while the batter already has two strikes.
this was more for DeFem than C.F. Can we strike this from the book?
-Score-keepers hold the final authority to award a hit to a batter, rather than an error. Also, the score-keeper decides if a hit is an extra-base hit, or if the batter reached extra bases due to an error.
I this should be clairifed to say "The official score at the time of the play inquestion has the final call on the decision." Maybe this is nit-picking, but this it could help.
- Before pitching to your own team, always look around to make sure the defense is ready.
Or else... what?
Also, maybe something should be written about when a fucked up play by the batting team's pitcher is an automatic out, or just and error