These rules govern HDBA House League Season, Tournament and City Championship games subject to any additional specific rules set out for tournaments and City Championships.

a)Rosters for house league teams must be submitted to the HDBA Registrar by no later than June 1^st, 2007 for any team to be eligible to play in the Mid-Summer Classic or the City Championships.

2. The Rules of Baseball and Ontario Baseball Association rules shall apply except where modified by these rules.

3. The interpretation and application of these rules shall apply as follows:
a)For Tournament Play:

i) At the time of an umpires ruling and before the next ensuing play has begun, the coach of an affected team may verbally request of the tournament convener an interpretation of these rules and/or appeal the ruling of an umpire related to these rules, and

ii) The tournament convener shall render an interpretation immediately following the request; and

iii) The tournament convener’s decision may be appealed to the tournament protest committee, consisting of designated by the tournament convener, who shall review the appeal and render a decision immediately during which the affected team received a tournament convener’s interpretation of these rules; and

iv) Any interpretation shall take effect at the time of appeal.

b) Protests shall not be made during season series play.

c) Protests may be made during tournament and City Championship series play.

4.1 To promote, as far as possible, fair and equal playing time for each player, the following shall apply:

a)Overage players (1 year only) shall not play the position of pitcher or catcher; and

(The coach must inform the opposing team who are overage players)

b) All players appearing and able to play at any game shall be included in the batting line-up; and

c) An open re-entry rule shall be used each inning defined by the following:

i) Players on the bench for any inning shall be on the field for the next ensuing inning; and

ii) No player shall sit out a second inning if any other player has not already sat out an inning and it shall follow that no player shall sit out a third inning if any other player has not already sat out two innings, and so on subject to game completion; and

4.2 Substitute pitchers during a defensive inning must come from the field.

a) Players may play in the pitching position their entire allotment of innings per game consecutively, such allotment being as set out in Table A attached; and.

b) One (1) pitch in any inning shall be sufficient to constitute an inning pitched for any player

c)The player as pitcher must sit out any inning prior to or immediately following any pitching performance;

d)Any player who pitches five (5) or more innings in a day or game must have two (2) nights rest immediately following the end of the game in which they have pitched.

4.3 Players may play in the catching position subject to these maximums:

a) three (3) not necessarily consecutive innings for Mosquito; and

b)four (4) not necessarily consecutive innings for Pee-Wee; and

c) no maximum for Bantam and Midget.

4.4 Teams shall play with a minimum of:

a)Eight (8) players during a interlock season series game; and where a team plays with eight (8) players there shall not be an automatic out for the ninth (9th) batting position; and

b) Nine (9) players during Mid-Summer Classic Tournament or Championship games.

4.5 In the mosquito, peewee and bantam division all players must play a minimum of one inning in the infield and a minimum of one inning in the outfield.

4.6 Absolutely no head first slides unless returning to a base. If a head first slide does occur the runner will me called out and the ball will be dead