The official Rules of Baseball shall apply (Baseball Canada), except as modified by BC Minor Rules and the following rules
- Your team roster must consist of players from your regular Spring 18UAA Midget team and cannot be a combined or club/select team. They must be available to play for the majority of the tournament round robin games and will not be permitted to play in the semi-finals and/or final games if they have not participated in any round robin games.
- A team roster is allowed to have a maximum of 18 players. Each team must complete and hand in a team roster by April 15, 2025.
- Call up players are permitted from 15UA teams only and must be on the team roster you submit. (no 15UAAA or 15UAA players permitted). Call ups are permitted to pitch but are limited to 15U pitch limits. All call ups must be identifiable by wearing their regular team jersey and the scorekeeper and game officials must be made aware of them prior to game play.
- Any over-aged players on your roster must be from your spring 18UAA roster, be identified on your tournament roster and ARE NOT permitted to pitch, as per BMC rules.
- Fair play rules in effect. Each player must play at least 3 complete defensive innings in a 7 inning game, and 2 complete defensive innings in a 5 inning game.
- Every player bats and the batting order remains the same throughout the game (no DH permitted). Players removed from a game due to injury during game play are removed from the batting line up and not an automatic out for their team . Players ejected from the game will be removed from the batting order and recorded as an ‘out’ for their team when their name comes up in the batting order.
- Unlimited defensive substitutions, except the pitcher who may not re-enter as pitcher.
- Round robin games – 3 run limit/team in first 2 innings, 5 run limit/team in inning 3, 4 & 5, no run limit in inning 6, 7. (3,3,5,5,5,open,open) This is to keep the game moving and on time.
- Mercy rule in effect. When the HOME team is up by 10 runs or more after the completion of 4.5 innings or the AWAY team is up by 10 runs or more after the completion of 5 innings then the game will be called.
- Each of the round robin games will have no new inning to start after 2 hrs & 15 mins from official start time. If a round robin game results in a tie after completion of 7 innings or time is reached then it will be ruled as such.
- Semi-Final games will have no new inning start after 2 hours and 30 minutes. If time is reached or 7 innings have been completed and the game is tied then extra innings will be added until a victor has been decided. First extra inning will start with 1 out and a runner on 2nd base (the last out of the previous inning), Second extra inning will start with 2 out and a runner on 2nd base (next last out from last official inning before the extra innings)
- Final Championship game will be 7 innings and all innings are declared open. If the game results in a tie after completion of 7 innings then extra innings will be added until a victor has been decided. Each extra inning will start with 1 out and a runner on 2nd base (the last out of the previous inning)
- Forfeits will be scored as a 10-0 loss (7 inning game) for the forfeiting team.
- HOME TEAM is predetermined in schedule except the Championship game which will be decided by coin toss. Home team to occupy the 3rd base dugout.
- HOME TEAM will provide the official scorekeeper for the game however both teams are encouraged to keep track of scores/pitch counts. (PICK UP & RETURN official score-book & pitch count sheets to the INFO TABLE) After completion of the game the HOME TEAM scorekeeper will complete the game summary sheet & obtain signatures from BOTH HEAD COACHES before submitting it to the INFO TABLE.
- Teams are expected to show up rain or shine, unless notified by the tournament Coordinator. A team must have a minimum of 8 players at game time or their team must forfeit the game. Forfeits will be scored as 7-0 loss for the forfeiting team.
- Pitching rules; Balks will be called at all games.
18UAA Pitching (in accordance with BCMBA Rule 24, Baseball BC Rule 6.02)
1-45 pitches = no rest
46-65 pitches = 2 nights rest
66-100 pitches = 3 nights rest 100 pitches in one day maximum (allowed to finish a batter)
15UA Pitching (in accordance with BCMBA Rule 24, Baseball BC Rule 6.02)
1-35 pitches = no rest
36- 65 pitches = 2 nights rest
66-85 pitches = 3 nights rest 85 pitches in one day maximum (allowed to finish a batter)
‘Diamond Cup’ tournament pitching rules:
Call up players are permitted to pitch, but are limited to 15UA game & daily pitch count limits.
Overaged players are NOT permitted to pitch. pitches thrown on Thursday & Friday will count as thrown on Saturday
A team playing 2 games in one day can have a pitcher play in both games as long as they have not gone over their pitch limits requiring rest. (ie. 46+ pitches for 18U players or 36+ for 15U ‘call ups’ cannot pitch in a second game on the same day). A pitcher cannot pitch on 3 consecutive days.
*An 18UAA Pitcher’s combined tournament pitch count cannot exceed 150 pitches and a 15UA Pitcher’s combined tournament pitch count cannot exceed 125 pitches.