little rules
we play little league baseball with some really wacky rules. it's farm division. coaches pitch the first two innings. then the kids pitch. until they walk three batters. which doesn't take long if we tell our batters not to swing. or the innings end because our batters swing at everything. sigh. the most bizarre rule is that an infielder can stop play just by holding up the ball high. runners get the next base if they're more than half way. otherwise they have to go back to the previous base. i guess the idea is that the kids can't throw the ball faster than they can run. and even when the ball gets to the base before the runner, it isn't caught. so the runner can just keep running. which is both pathetic and exciting. but so what? there's another rule that says you can only score five runs per inning.