Mots42

This is how we played in our tournament over the weekend. what I find happening in our rec league is, We field the ball, stop the runners, throw the ball to the circle but if he doesn’t catch it clean, base runners continue their runs again. This leads to roughly 15 “junk” points between us and another team during our first game.

Hello, 8u park and rec coach here trying to determine how common a rule is. Our local rec league doesn’t stop play until the ball is in the circle. This leads to “stand offs” as I like to call them. The lead runner is clearly no longer advancing. But… they immediately run when the ball is being thrown back to the “circle” this creates pure chaos, kids who field the ball in front of a runner stare them down, but are too afraid to throw to the circle because the runner will resume running. I am putting a team together to travel locally. We played in a Grand slam tourney where the play was dead when the lead runner stopped advancing. main question, how common is our set of park and rec rules? Thanks