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the roster list rules (active and expanded rosters) which also determines who is eligible to play for a team in the playoffs and World Series; tie-breaking rules for deciding which teams go to the playoffs; implementing/enforcing the expanded playing rules issued to umpires which goes into much greater detail than the official baseball rules of
A catcher attempts to block a baserunner from reaching home plate. In baseball, blocking the plate is a technique performed by a catcher to prevent a runner from scoring. The act of blocking the plate accounted for most of the physical contact in Major League Baseball prior to the 2014 season, when it was outlawed except when the catcher already has possession of the ball.
The Official Rules of Major League Baseball is a set of rules set forth by the MLB governing the playing of baseball games by professional teams of Major League Baseball and the leagues that are members of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. The rules specify the equipment used [1] [2] and its care and preparation, [3 ...
Baseball scorekeeping is the practice of recording the details of a baseball game as it unfolds. Professional baseball leagues hire official scorers to keep an official record of each game (from which a box score can be generated), but many fans keep score as well for their own enjoyment. [ 1 ]
The Official Baseball Rules uses the term batter-runner to identify the batter from the time he becomes a base runner until the end of the same play, whether he is successful at legally attaining first base or any subsequent base. The term is not applied if the batter is awarded first base (the last three items in the above list).
For a collegiate summer league team — playing a rung below the minors — the Savannah Bananas draw big crowds when they barnstorm through the South and Midwest during the offseason.
Ground rules are rules applying to the field, objects on and near it, and special situations relating to them, in the game of baseball. Major League Baseball has defined a set of "universal ground rules" that apply to all MLB ballparks; [ 1 ] individual ballparks have the latitude to set ground rules above and beyond the universal ground rules ...
A college baseball game turned shockingly violent today as a pitcher tackled a base runner right in the middle of the play. In the top of the sixth inning of today’s NJCAA game between North ...