At our local high schools lacrosse and spring soccer are more popular than softball, we struggle to recruit players. But reading this thread I'm seeing a bright side, we've never have a problem getting 3-4 coaches per team, the families who sign up for softball have parents who are fans of the...
I got the continuation reference from one or two of the sites I Googled, it's not in our rulebook. Our rules don't even explicitly reference the LBR, they just say that advancing beyond first is allowed on a walk with no other specifics. Other leagues that we play are aware of how the LBR is...
Good thought, I coached little league baseball for a bunch of seasons before making the good switch to softball and haven't had to pull out the rule book yet. I just want to make sure that I'm confident in the interpretation that I'm coaching the kids.
This is great, thank you. I wish there was a clearly written rule that I could reference to show the umps and opposing coaches, but at least I am now a lot more confident in what I am coaching our kids.
Most of the umps and most of the leagues are allowing the runners to overrun first and advance, this is the first time we've had an issue but it happened two games in a row so I decided I had better learn the precise rule. One league we played has coaches, players, and an ump that were all...
Thanks.
Our local rule is: On a walk, the batter-runner can continue past first base in accordance with ASA rules
From which I can assume that means regardless of whether the ball is in the circle. It does not factor in the idea that a runner could try to take advantage of a pitcher and/or...
I've been coaching 12u rec league softball for a couple years now with kids who are all new to softball in the same time frame, I thought I understood the Look Back Rule but after a couple calls last weekend I'm not sure. We had two games where our batter drew a walk, ran full speed to first...
Just about every season we have a parent coaching from the sidelines, once I know who they are I pull back and let the parent coach their own kid. It's rec league so it's not worth the confrontation and it does not help the kid to have two different sets of instructions. I can always pull the...