Baseball Tournament Rules

• NCAA baseball rules are in effect for all games.

• All NCAA games will be 9 innings, unless the same two teams play a doubleheader in which case both games will be 7 innings.

• All games balls for Snowbird Classic games will be provided

• The home team shall designate someone to operate the scoreboard if there is one. If there is no operational scoreboard, each team’s official scorekeeper shall verify the score with the opponent after each inning

• The home plate umpire will keep the official game line-ups and substitutions

• Teams shall vacate the dugouts as soon as the game is over so that the next game’s teams can get ready to play. We ask that all teams clean up their respective dugouts before vacating them.

• Halted games: A game that has been stopped at any time because of inclement weather, darkness, light failure or curfew, will be continued from the point of suspension at a date and time to be determined by the tournament director. Unfinished halted games are official if 5 innings are completed or if 4½ innings have been played and the home team is ahead. Should a regulation game (4½ or more innings completed) be suspended due to rain or darkness with the score tied then the game may be resumed on a day and time agreed to by the coaches and site director. Should a game be halted due to field light failure, curfew or field lights/time restrictions, it will be resumed at the suspended point at a later date to be agreed upon by the site director and both coaches.
  
  
• Protest: If a rules interpretation is questioned during the course of a game, the coach challenging the ruling should call time out and protest the game with the home plate umpire before the next pitch (protest cannot be heard if not made before the next pitch). The home plate umpire will stop the game to explain the ruling or the supervisor of umpires or tournament director shall be called via cell phone. If neither the supervisor of umpires nor the tournament director can be contacted, the umpires on the field should consult the NCAA rule book and make a final and binding ruling.

• The grounds crew will get 15 minutes to prepare the field for the game.
  
  
• Each team will get 15 minutes of infield practice: Home team infield: begins 45 minutes before game and ends 30 minutes before game. Away team: Begins 30 minutes before game and ends 15 minutes before game.