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Unlike basketball, American football or ice hockey, and in a similar way to association football, baseball does not have a free substitution rule (at the professional level) and thus the replaced player is not allowed back into that game. The pinch hitter assumes the spot in the batting order of the player whom he replaces.
Free substitution or rolling substitution is a rule in some sports that allows players to enter and leave the game for other players many times during the course of a game, generally during a time-out or other break in live play; and for coaches to bring in and take out players an unlimited number of times.
This is a rare situation where the Official Rules allow an injured baserunner to be substituted, [14] and play then resumes. [10] Two known instances—occurring in 1977 and 2005—occurred when a baserunner entitled to score was injured such that he had to be removed from the game, and a substitute was allowed to enter the game to finish the ...
College softball run-rule, explained. If a team leads by eight or more runs after five full innings, then the game is called due to the run-rule effect in college softball. The rule is the same in ...
Per Rule 6.14 of the "2024 and 2025 Softball Rules Book": "A regulation eight-run-rule game shall be declared by the plate umpire if one team is ahead by eight or more runs after five or more ...
Substitution No player substituted for may return to the game, including the replaced player if the DH takes a defensive position. Under high school rules in the United States, a player may be substituted for and return to the game once. A pitcher who leaves the game may return, but only as a fielder (not the pitcher or DH).
Jul. 12—The rules changes keep coming for high school sports. Just days after the National Federation of State High School Associations — the national governing body of high school athletics ...
The reentry of a replaced player into the game is a violation of the permanent substitution rule; if the defense has more than nine players on the field at any time, the umpire must determine who is the tenth player, and that player is ejected from the game.