BASEBALLS

For all end of season tournament games umpires will pick up baseballs in the concession stand take baseballs with them to the game. Baseballs will be collected and brought back to the concession stand after the game and not given out to the teams. This is for tournament games only.

• 2-3 baseballs for 6U / 8U. 1 New two good used
• 3-4 for all others. 2 new 2 good used

SYB will use the following for determining which team is the home team for a given postseason game.

• For 6UNL, 10U, & 12U Single Elimination Tournament games the better Seed will be Home team.

For 8U, 14U

• If a game is on the winner’s side of the bracket, the better seed is the home team.
•  If a game is on the loser’s side of the bracket, the umpire will flip a coin during the pregame coaches’ meeting at home plate.
• The coach for the better seeded team will call heads or tails.
• The winner of the coin flip will decide if they want to be home or visitor.
• For the sake of staying on schedule, teams will take the first open dugout when they arrive at the ballpark and not necessarily the proper dugout. In other words, a team will remain in whatever dugout that team is occupying at the time of the coin flip even if they should technically be in the other dugout.

 TIME LIMIT All games will play using current time limits, inning limits and run limits.

• The championship game will not use a time limit but will still use Inning and run limit.  If the game is tied at the end of the inning limit use the tie breaker rules as follow.

Tie breaker rules for the tournament

• If a game is tied after the official game time expires
• Tie breaker innings start at the top of the next inning after which time expires. 
• All Extra innings will be played with no max runs allowed per inning.
• Texas Tie Breaker, last 3 hitters on base with 1 out.
• The base runners will be placed as follows:
  • Last hitter from previous inning @ 1st Base
  • Hitter before them in the lineup @ 2nd Base
  • Hitter before that in the lineup @ 3rd Base
• Play continues until one team is ahead at the end of an inning.