INTERNAL RULE TOURNOI NATIONAL BANTAM VILLE-MARIE 2010
Arrival
Teams must be present one hour
before game time, in the event of inclement weather, Montreal Orioles officials
will notify the manager or coach of cancellation in advance, when possible. If there are any doubts, assume game will be played.
Team registration
Upon arrival teams must submit
the required information before beginning of their first game, the duly
supplemented, approved and signed following ORIGINAL documents:
- Provincial team and roster registration
(no photocopy)
- Provincial permission to
participate to a tournament- If available
- Regular league season calendar
- Score sheet of the last five games
- Notice of suspension, if need
be
- classify AA: LR (spare list)
General rules
Baseball Québec Rule Book 2010, these rules will apply
during our tournament.
Protest
Any protest must be given to the
umpire at the time of the play under protest, before play resumes. The team
lodging the protest has to deposit the amount of money required by the
tournament organizers. The game is suspended and the protest committee meets at
once to study the protest. The decision is final and without further right of
appeal. A protest must be accompanied by the amount of one hundred dollars (100$)
cash and a form will be supplied for that purpose. The game resumes immediately
after the decision is made. If the ruling is in favor of the protesting team,
the money is reimbursed
Coin Toss
Thirty (30) minutes before the
scheduled pool game time, there will be a coin toss to determine the home
(third base side dugout) and visiting (first base side dugout) team. In the playoff
rounds, the team that has the best record will be the home team in case o f a
draw a coin toss will take place.
Line up sheet
The line up sheet of every team
must be available thirty (30) minutes before the game.
Bantam division
104.4
Distance between the bases is eighty (80) feet or 24,
38 meters;
Distance between home
plate and the front of the pitcher’s rubber is fifty-six (54) feet or 16, 46 meters;
Authorized bats
103.6
Bats made of wood, aluminum,
graphite or any other materials approved by the F.B.A.Q. are authorized. For
the Bantam AA the “Minus 3” and superior bat (-2, -1, etc -difference between
the length and the weight of the bat and not more than 2 5/8 inches in diameter
at the thickest part) is the only one authorized.
Length of games preliminary
round
Bantam division: seven innings to be completed, if
time and weather permits. Time limit is two hours, no new innings will be
played after two hours of the beginning of the game, (4½) Innings
constitute a regulation game, if the home team has more runs than the visiting
team. A tie game is possible when time limits apply. If time limit has
expired and regulation game as not been achieved tournament officials have the right
to put an end to the game and this game becomes therefore in regulation. Mercy rule, if a team has a lead of ten
(10) runs or more on his opponent, the game stops. A game must be a regulation
game to apply this rule.
Length of games championship
round
Bantam division: seven innings to be completed, if
weather permits.
Mercy rule, if a team has a lead of ten (10) runs on
his opponent, the game stops. A game must be a regulation game to apply this
rule.
Game re-entry
103.12
- Any starting player may be substituted for
and returned to the game, one time only. He/she must return to his/her original
place in the batting order. Any pitcher, if removed from the game may return,
but may not pitch. Any further substitutions do not jeopardize the right of
re-entry for the original/starting player. Any starting player returned to the game
may pitch if he/she has not previously assumed that position.
- Re-entry in the game of
a player is allowed when all substitutes have been used and there is an injury
to one of the players on the playing field or when the umpire ejects a player.
- Re-entry in the game of
a player is allowed when all substitutes have been used and there is an injury
to one of the players on the playing field. The re-entry is not allowed for an
ejected player.
-A player who has been
substituted for in the game because of injury or who was ejected can't reenter the
game as a substitute for an injured or ejected player.
Pitcher
107.2
· VISIT
- A
coach who visits the pitcher for a second time in the same inning has to change
his pitcher, who can play another position, except as a catcher.
· LEAVING THE MOUND
- A
pitcher who leaves the mound to play at another position cannot pitch again in
this game;
· INTENTIONAL BASE ON BALLS
-A
coach can inform the plate umpire of his intention to award an intentional base
on balls to the batter. No pitches will be counted on the pitcher’s pitch
count. The ball is dead; the batter is automatically awarded first base, the runner’s
advance, if forced.
· RESTRICTION
-A player that pitch cannot play as a catcher
during the day;
-A player cannot pitch in three (3)
consecutive days;
-For the purpose of this rule, a complete day
of rest means a complete
calendar
day.
· NUMBER OF PITCHES PER DAY (Tournaments – Championships)
-If
the pitcher throws between 46 and 60 pitches during the day, he must have one
complete day of rest;
-If
the pitcher throws between 61 and 75 pitches during the day, he must have two complete
days of rest;
-If
the pitcher throws between 76 and 90 pitches during the day, he must have three
complete days of rest.
-When
the pitcher reaches or go over 46 pitches during a game, he cannot pitch in another
game during the same day.
-When
the pitcher reaches the maximum number of pitches allowed (90 pitches) during a
day during a batters at-bat, he is allowed to complete the at-bat and must be
replaced following that batter.
-During
a tournament and championship, a coach can do a second visit to the pitcher on the
same batter in the same inning in order to remove the pitcher.
-
During the tournaments and the championships, a person is assigned to keep
track of the pitches. Its pitches log is the official source for the purpose of
this rule.