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Ponytail League Rules

1. Base lines shall be 60' in length.
2. The front edge of the pitching rubber shall be 40' from the point of home plate.
3. A circle with a radius of 8' will be drawn around the 40' pitcher’s plate.

Ponytails shall play with a 12” 47 core optic yellow ball.

1. The entire roster will play defensively. There will be six (6) players in the infield with the remainder in the outfield.
2. The entire roster will be included in the batting order.
3. Each half inning will be concluded when 3 OUTS have been made by the team at bat, or at the end of play on the 10 th or last batter of the inning. The offensive coach must inform the umpire when the last batter comes to bat.
   A. End of play on the last batter may be interpreted to be when an OUT is made on the last batter, or on any base runner on base at the time the last batter bats. In effect, at the point when the last batter steps to the plate, two OUTS are considered to exist on the offensive team, even though they may in fact not have any OUTS.
   B.If the last batter receives a base on balls, is hit by a pitched ball, or if there is catcher’s interference, all base runners shall advance two bases, and the inning is considered complete.
4. An official game requires at least 8 players. If less than 8 players are available, a forfeit shall be declared.

1. A regulation game shall be of 6 innings or 1 hour and 15 minutes in length. No inning may begin after the time limit has expired. Games may end in a tie.
2. Coaches may not intentionally delay games. If in the opinion of the umpire, a coach intentionally causes such a delay, the umpire may declare the game forfeited, or take such other action as the umpire deems appropriate.
3. A game called by the umpire due to inclement weather shall be regulation if both teams have played 4 or more complete innings, or if the home team is ahead after three and one-half innings.
4. A game shall be considered a regulation game when a team is ahead by 10 runs after both teams have played four complete innings, or when the home team is ahead by 10 runs after three and one-half innings.

1. A pitcher shall not pitch more than 8 innings between Sunday through the following Saturday night. If the pitcher returns to the mound within the same inning of the game she is removed, she will be charged as having pitched in only one inning for the inning in which she was removed.
2. One pitch thrown in an inning constitutes one inning pitched.
3. For the purposes of determining the number of innings pitched in a week, all games shall be considered as played on the date originally scheduled.
4. In the event that 3 games are scheduled during the same week, pitchers receive an additional 4 innings. This does not modify the existing rain out rules.

1. A standard bracket seeding teams in accordance with their record shall be used.
2. All games including the championship games shall be played by the same rules as set forth herein and used in the regular season play (i.e. length of game, pitcher innings, etc.) except games shall not end in a tie. The international tiebreaker rule shall be used to prevent a tie.
3. The higher seed team shall occupy the Home dugout.
4. In determining league standing in the event of a win/loss record tie, the higher seed team will first be determined by head to head record and then by run differential. If there is still a tie the higher seed team will be determined by total games run differential. A maximum of only seven (7) runs will be counted in a win or loss game run differential

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