This weekend’s unique rules
1) Have fun, this is a fundraiser for our Making Strides Against Breast Cancer team: AkS4Life
2) Home Runs
2 and progressive for Coed C Open & D
1 and progressive for Coed D games
Seperate count for men and women
3) COED OPEN VS COED OPEN GAMES only: One player per game can be immune from the home run rules (circle or announce them before their first at bat) all their shots count and none of their shots count against the 2 and progressive. This player CAN be walked but they go straight to third and if there is a lady behind them and two outs she may chose to go to second.
4) Run spot between Open & D is 6 runs
5) 55 minute games, no time limit in the championship and if games.
6) In championship game the team from Winners Bracket is home, if game is a coin toss.
7) Only 2022 stickered ASA bats are allowed
8) Run rules are 20 after 3, 15 after 4, 10 after 5. If spotted those rules are in addition to the spot
9) Tiebreaker rule is last hitter takes second
10) Coed C is Open rosters, Coed D is allowed 4 pickups from a Coed D or Coed E team.We will allow for a player to play Saturday and a different player on Sunday but this must be indicated at the start of tourney. Coed C Open is just that with limit of 2 restricted players per team
11) We will try to get some volunteers to scorekeep the later rounds (all money saved goes to our cause) but if one isn’t available we’ll expect the home team to keep book like in league. Every little bit will help us give as much as possible to Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
12) We’ll provide each team with balls for the weekend, give them and collect them from the umpires each game.
13) Mulligans are back! Every team will get one to start the tourney. How, when or if you use it is up to you, after you use the first one you can buy more before each game ($5). Use is limited to one per game, and must be used before the 6th inning. Give the mulligan TO THE UMPIRE when used. They MUST be used in a timely manner, if you wait till most of a team is off the field it’s too late.
How OUR Mulligans work
This is often referred to as a “Redo” option in other tournaments. Teams MUST purchase or have on hand a mulligan prior to the first pitch of each game to use them. The cost is $5 cash and paid directly to the tourney director. 100% of this $5 fee goes directly to American Cancer Associaiton! Here’s how the mulligan works. It may be used only ONCE per game. It allows a team, while playing either offense OR defense, to force a player to bat again with the hopes of changing the original outcome of that player’s at-bat. For example: It’s the bottom of the 5th inning, defense (visiting team) is winning by 2 runs. Offense is home team and has bases loaded and 2 outs. Batter 7 steps into the box and hits a line drive gapper to the fence and 3 runs score and it appears they have won the game by 1 run. The manager from the visiting team runs in from left field and wants to use their mulligan. THIS IS GOOD. You return all runners to the bases they occupied prior to batter 7 hitting, and batter 7 returns to the plate with a fresh, new 1-1 count to try again. Let’s say in this scenario, batter 7 now pops up for the third out and it appears they have lost the game. The Home Team could, if they had not previously used their mulligan, use their mulligan to have batter 7 return to the plate AGAIN, with a fresh, new 1-1 count to try once more. GENERALLY, teams don’t wait to the last out of the game to use their mulligans. Another example: Top of the 4th inning, visiting team batting with bases loaded and 1 out. Batter 4 hits into a double play for outs 2 and 3. The batting team could use their mulligan to have batter 4 hit again. Just remember, the mulligan can ONLY be used once per game and can ONLY be used to force a player to bat again.
14) Champions of each tourney get 15 custom jerseys for the players that play in the tourney, everyone gets entered in a drawing for some swag
15) Unless listed here, all other Anchorage Sports and USA Softball rules apply