1. Home/Visitor will be decided by a coin toss
conducted by a Monkey.
2. The game shall be played between 2 teams of
8 or more players, with at least 3 women. Only
8 players may take the field at a time, 2 must
be women.
3. The defensive team may set in any order the
team wishes (guys and girls in either the infield
or outfield). There is no set rule for placing
defending players, except that they must be behind
the pitcher (not directly behind the pitcher,
but behind an imaginary line connecting first
and third base).
4. A half inning will consist of 3 outs. Games
will consist of 5 innings or a 30-minute time
limit (whichever comes first).
5. Game time is forfeit time. “I was getting
beer” is not a valid excuse for showing
up late for a game (unless you bring one to the
official). A team may start with a minimum of
6 players and must end with a minimum 6 players.
6. The defensive team will supply the pitcher.
A ball that rolls over any portion of home plate
is a strike, unless it is bouncing over one foot
high. The official on the field will make that
judgment, so leave your rulers and tape measures
at home. This is Kickball, so two strikes and
you’re out. Foul balls count as strikes,
so if you foul two balls, you’re out. And
you should probably sit out next inning and think
about what you’ve done. Three balls equal
a walk, and a laugh at the inept pitcher.
7. A player will be ruled out if he/she kicks
two fouls, a pop fly is caught, if the base runner
is off the base before the ball is put into play
by the kicker, or gets hit by the ball from the
shoulders or below before reaching the base (exception:
a player who is not in a regular standing/running
position and is hit in the face/head will be ruled
out), Once again this is a judgment made by our
infallible officials (so no arguing, dammit!)
8. There will be no infield fly rule.
9. Defensive players may kick the ball, as opposed
to throwing it (if you are in the outfield, and
are accurate with your kick, this would be a good
idea.
10. The batter may not run past home plate before
kicking the ball. A runner who leaves the base
before the pitch reaches home plate or is hit,
is out and the ball is dead. Leading off and stealing
bases between pitches is not allowed. “I
was going to get beer” is not a valid excuse
for leaving the base.
11. To avoid injury (and fights), offensive players
will not be allowed to slide into, run into, tackle,
or physically disturb the defensive player in
any way when a play is being made. In fact, the
same rule will apply when a play is not being
made. There is no base guarding, and runners may
overrun bases without being tagged out (once you
touch the base, you’re safe).
12. Mercy Rule: If your team is losing by ten
or more runs at the end of an inning, you lose.
And you suck. And you probably won’t be
allowed to play next year either.
13. Bunting is legal. However, if you bunt everyone
will point and laugh at you.
14. A ball that bounces over the outfield fence
is an automatic double. Since there are no fences,
you may forget everything that you have read in
the last 3 seconds.
15. Anything not covered in these rules will be
made up quickly by the official on the field.
Once again they will be infallible in every way.
16. The MonkeyBR staff will settle all disputes
and will be the final authority. Preferential
treatment will be given to players wearing official
MonkeyBR merchandise, on sale nearby wherever
you are currently standing.
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