Rules

Soft Ball League Rules

Teams:

Teams must be Coed and can set up fielding to have either 6 Males 4 Females, 5 Males 5 Females, or 4 Males 6 Females maximum, without penalty
Teams with only 2 females with 6 males minimum or 2 males with 6 females minimum will have to play with the one out rule until that 4 males or female arrives. (One out rule states that every time the person missing were to come up and bat the team receives an out)
Teams must have a minimal of 8 players per game to play with 2 being of at least one gender
During regular season you may pick up players on a needed basis. Players team must approve of use of their player (can only deny 1 player)
Teams returning to league from previous year keep team names and colors will. If a team leaves the league another team may choose to take on that color.
Teams may bring in immediate family members (Husband, Wife, Brother, Sister, Mother, Father) not to exceed team need.
Teams are not to exceed 15 players on batting line up. If a team chooses to have over 15 players on its roster they must choose only 15 to play on a given day.

Batting:

Batting order must have a male and female always batting after each other
Ball hit directly at pitcher that reaches the pitchers box whether it’s a grounder, or line drive is an out. If ball clearly goes over pitchers head (reaching length) or the pitcher moves out of the box then it is not an out as the pitcher is now considered a fielder. (dead ball)
Each batter goes up with 1 automatic ball and 1 automatic strike
When a batter has 2 strikes and has hit a foul ball, another foul ball will result in an out
Throwing the bat after hitting is an automatic out (please enforce)
Infield Popfly rules imply (dead ball)
When a male is walked (without additional strike) he receives 2 bases instead of 1 after the third time a male is walked (without additionals strike) for the rest of the game whenever a male is walked and given two bases the upcoming female has the option to automatically proceed to first without batting.

Base Running:

Playing for safety so runner cannot intentionally run or slide into the defender
When running to first base and defender is standing on white bag, you must touch the orange bag or will be called out automatically
Touching the ball in any way while the game is in play will result in an automatic out
Leading off the bag is only allowed after the ball is out of the pitchers hand
Base runners may be provided but will only be 1 per gender per inning.

Fielding:

Teams may set up fielding as they wish with only fielding requirement being that the rover must be a female.
Do not stand in the baseline impeding the runner as the referee will advance the runner automatically
Balls thrown out of play by the fielding team will stop the field of play and referee will advance runners based on their discretion.
Pitcher must pitch within pitchers box
Pitcher must have at least one foot within pitchers box after ball is hit in order to not be considered a fielder.
Rover may play anywhere on the field as long as they are behind the infielders and must be female.

General:

Play Safely
Games will be on an inning/time-based schedule of either 7 innings or 1.5 hour games whichever comes first.
No New inning after 1.15 hours. (Open inning must be called at beginning of the inning not in the middle)
Each inning except the last inning will have a 5 run cap after 5 runs are scored that part of the inning is over
No limit on scoring is on last inning of the game whether it’s the 7^th inning or the last inning due to time constraints coming up
No overtime during the season and those games ending in a tie will give both teams a draw on their record
Dues of 415 dollars are due before the first game of the season in order to avoid penalty
Team that does not turn in dues before the due date (june 9^th) will forfeit 1 game. Teams that do not turn in dues before 1st game of season ( June 29th) will forfeit 2 games and will be up for removal from league.
Respect the rules of Westchester park so there is to be no drinking of alcohol
Respect the rules of the Ref. Excessive arguing or harassing of the referee can lead to removal of a player from game and automatic 1 game suspension. Multiple violators will be subject to removal from league.
Teams returning from previous year keep team colors. If a team does not return from previous year another team may choose to give up their color and take that teams color.
Teams must pay the refs 15 dollars each before the start of each game.
Each Team will be given a batting order booklet before the beginning of the season and must turn their batting order to the other team prior to the start of the game
When a new player arrives that player must check in with other team in order to be added to bottom of the line up.

Playoffs:

Playoffs are determined by records
Tie breakers for playoff spots will be determined by head to head matchups. If multiple teams are tied and head to head matchup cannot determine tie breaker then run differential will be used to determine playoff spots.
Playoffs will be as followed 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5. with the 9th seed being eliminated from playoffs automatically
Championship round will have the Highest winning seed will play the lowest winning seed and the next two teams facing each other with the winners of each game playing in the championship that night.
Championship day games will feature two refs per game which means teams will pay 30 per game instead of the usual 15 per game.
Overtime games in playoffs will place the last player to get an out on second base and the next person due to bat is to come and bat with two out automatically on the board until we get a winner.