TRIPS TO THE MOUND
Rule 5.10(L): Note regarding translators: Standards and On-Field Operations Regulation 2-2 (“Occupying the Bench”) provides that a full-time interpreter is permitted to enter the playing field during a game to translate for a coach or manager on an official visit to the pitcher as well as for the evaluation of an injury of…
ON-DECK CIRCLE
Rule 5.10(k): The next batter up must be in the on-deck circle, and this is the only player who should be there (i.e., not more than one player at a time). No other player of the side at bat will be permitted on the field except the batter, base runners, and coaches.
PITCHER CHANGING DEFENSIVE POSITIONS
Rules 5.10(d) Comment, 5.10(g): The purpose of this Comment is to prohibit a player from being a substitute for a pitcher more than once in the same inning. Thus, a player who starts (or enters the game during) an inning as a pitcher may substitute for any position(s) afterwards; however, he may not return to…
SIGNAL TO THE BULLPEN
Rules 5.10(b), 5.10(b) Comment: The manager must notify the umpiring crew that he is making a pitching change by clearly and unambiguously informing the home plate umpire of the pitcher who will be entering the game. Additionally, the manager should be mindful to signal for a left-handed pitcher with his left hand, or a right-handed…
MULTIPLE SUBSTITUTIONS AND DOUBLE-SWITCHES
Rule 5.10(b) Comment: When a manager makes two or more substitutions at the same time, the manager must, at the same moment, advise the plate umpire of the names of the substitutes, their defensive positions, and in what place each will hit in the batting order. The manager cannot give notice of one of the…
SUBSTITUTIONS
Rule 5.10: A player or players may be substituted during a game at any time the ball is dead. A substitution is completed and the player is considered as having entered the game when the manager or his designee notifies the plate umpire of the substitution. If no such notification is given to the umpire…
RETOUCHING BASES WHILE BALL IS DEAD
Rule 5.09(c)(2): While the ball is dead, no runner may return to touch a missed base or one he has left too soon after he has advanced to and touched a base beyond the missed base. A runner may return to a missed base (or one he has left too soon) during the time the…
APPEAL PLAYS—APPROVED RULINGS
Rule 5.09(c): (1) Runner on first base, one out. The batter doubles. Runner on first rounds the bases and tries for home. On the play at the plate, the catcher misses the tag and runner misses the plate in sliding by. As the catcher begins to chase the runner to apply a tag, the batter-runner…
RUNNERS PASSING
Rule 5.09(b)(9): Runners passing are not protected from being called out in accordance with Official Baseball Rule 5.09(b)(9) by time being called or other dead ball situation (i.e. ground-rule double, home run, etc.) if they are still in the act of running the bases.
RUNNER TOUCHED BY INFIELD FLY
Rule 5.09(b)(7): Rule 5.09(b)(7) was amended in 2019 to clarify that when a runner is touched by an Infield Fly when he is not in contact with his base and before the ball has gone through, or by, an infielder, and no other infielder has a chance to make a play on the ball, both…
