League Rules

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If you have questions about the rules we use in the Queen’s Park Championship League, whether you’re a player looking for a refresher, an eager audience member, or like to do your research before signing up to something, you’ve come to the right place.

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Helpful Videos

Click the thumbnails below for some helpful beginner videos about baseball!

How to Play Baseball

Runtime: 1 minute 31 seconds

Learn How to Play Baseball with this video guide produced by WikiHow.

0:00 Runs and strikes

0:20 Running the bases

0:48 Getting out

1:08 Switching batting teams and innings

10 Fielding Drills

Runtime: 12 minutes 28 seconds

These 10 fun baseball fielding drills have been compiled by MOJO, an app used for coaches of Little League baseball. The drills can help players learn about proper form, build confidence, and are also great fun!

Baseball Rules for Beginners

Run time: 14 minutes 56 seconds

From the school of sports, here is a slightly more in depth explanation of the core base rules of baseball. The video covers rules to do with the pitcher, catcher, hitter, batter, pitch, strike zone, strike, ball, hit, walk, out, foul ball, fair ball, pop out, fly out, put out, tag out, steal (stealing base), double play, home run, inning, score board.

Things to remember

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    Dropped Third Strike Rule

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    Infield Pop-Fly Rule

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    Balk

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    Caught Pop-Fly Rules

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    Calling for Time

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    Getting Ejected from the Game

  • The aim of both teams is to try and score the most 'runs' by the end of the game. 'Runs' are achieved by a player making it around all the bases and safely make it back to home base.

    It is the role of the other team to try and get players 'out' before they get back to home base

  • These two teams take alternate turns batting and fielding.

    The team that is batting, has players aim to bat balls thrown to them by the opposing team's pitcher. If they successfully hit a pitch, they try to get to first base safely.

    The team that is fielding is trying to get each player on the batting team out. The pitcher can do this by 'striking out' a batter (throwing three balls the batter tries to hit but cannot) or the fielders can do this by tagging players with the ball, or beating them to the base they are trying to get to whilst in possession of the ball

    During each inning both teams get a chance to bat and field.

  • An inning is basically one 'round' of a baseball game.

    An inning is split into halves the 'top' (first half) and the 'bottom' (second half) ((there is absolutely nothing funny to say about tops and bottoms))

    At the start of the inning one team will be batting and one team fielding. Once this half of the inning is over, they swap around.

    A half comes to an end when the fielding team has gotten 3 players of the opposing team out.

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • There are 9 fielding positions in baseball. All of these positions also bat when it is their teams' turn to.

    1. Pitcher

    2. Catcher

    3. First Base

    4. Second Base

    5. Short Stop

    6. Third Base

    7. Left Field

    8. Centre Field

    9. Right Field

  • 100% yes! Although there are a lot of rules to wrap your head around, baseball is a super fun sport and the Sunflowers aim to make it accessible and beginner friendly.

    Come along and give it a go!

  • Honestly, truly, I do not know.

    It's very silly :P