West Jordan Copper Hills Baseball will have teams participating in the following level of divisions playing under charter of the Wasatch Baseball Leagues:

• A Drafted (Rec) Division
• AAA Intact Division

No Malicious contact rule will be enforced per umpire discretion.

Head first sliding at home will be called an out.

Mercy rule will apply:

• If one team is ahead by fifteen runs after the end of the three complete innings, or if the home team is ahead by fifteen after two and one-half innings, the game is considered a regulation game.
• If one team is ahead by ten runs after the end of four complete innings, or if the home team is ahead by ten after three and one-half innings, the game is considered a regulation game.

After each game, both head coaches, scorekeepers, and home plate official will certify the accuracy of the home team GameChanger.

The catcher shall wear all appropriate protective gear including a catcher’s helmet with face mask and either a built-in, extended throat guard or a separately attached throat guard, chest protector, shin and/or leg guards and protective cup. The protective cup is required for both male and female players. In divisions TBall through Prep 13U, the catcher’s helmet shall fully cover both ears.

No metal cleats will be allowed in any age or division under Prep 13U.

Any player found playing with metal cleats will be removed for the remainder of the game.

Any team who does not have the minimum required players to play will forfeit their game.

No metal cleats (in any age division) should be worn on any temporary pitching mound at any park.

No music (including any item that makes excessive noise) should be played by any team at any park at any time.

Any player warming up a pitcher must wear a mask.

No Wood Bats will be allowed for Major Division and below.

Home team will use the 1st base dugout and the visitors will use the 3rd base dugout. This is to correspond with the scoreboards.

Catcher Speed Up Rule – When there are two outs each team may remove the catcher of record from the base paths and utilize a substitute runner in an effort to speed up the game. The last batted out will run for the catcher, when implementation of the rule is in effect.

Teams will not be allowed to warm up on the infield prior to games, including pitchers and catchers

Coaches will be required to play all players a minimum of two innings per game. All players in all divisions will be placed in the batting lineup. Six outs will constitute a complete inning. Un-played innings of games shortened by weather conditions or any other reason will not be credited to a player’s minimum playing time. It is “highly recommended” that a coach rotates his starting players so that the same players do not always lose the half inning of playing time at the end of the last inning when the home team is ahead. It is “highly recommended” that all player rotations in the Minor and Major Divisions be made no later than upon completion of the third inning.

Any team not playing all players the required innings and at least one at-bat will have one game deleted from the win column of league records, resulting in an extra loss. Exceptions: situations that make it impossible to play a player the required innings would be as follows: four inning games, rain-outs, or when players recorded in the official score book prior to the start of the game are injured, must leave early, are on vacation, or not playing for disciplinary reasons. These must be documented in Gamechanger. Once documented, that player may not reenter the game. Continued failure of the required playing time rule will then result in the removal of the coach from the league. No written protest by a Head Coach will be necessary for the board to enforce the required playing time rule. Commissioners of any division may and will periodically check for violations.

An opposing coach may not protest the minimum playing time rule.

Games will start as long as each team has a minimum of seven players. When players arrive, they will be added to the end of the batting order. If a team has less than nine players and the batting position is missing a player, the opposing team has the option to enforce the automatic out or allow to skip the batting position with no out taken. If a player is injured during the game and is not able to make a plate appearance there will be no out taken, and the batter will be skipped.

When a team has less than nine players, a substitute can only be acquired from a league player, one division immediately below and who is qualified under the Play-up Rule.

To protest a game the Head Coach must call for time from the umpire and inform the umpire that a protest is being made. The umpire will bring both head coaches and the Board Member on Duty together to notify all of the protest. It will be noted in GameChanger that a protest is being made along with the following information: the time on the clock, pitcher, runners on base, player at bat and the count, along with the plate umpire’s name for protest approval.

The game will then continue. In the event a protest is upheld the league may:

1. rule a forfeit for one of the teams involved
2. replay the game from the point of the protest
3. leave the game outcome as it stands. In the event the game or portion of the game must be replayed it will follow the resumption of game rules as stated in these bylaws under suspended games. The protest form needs to be submitted by noon the next day or the protest will be ruled invalid.

The TBall & Rookie Divisions will not have umpires or score kept.

The PeeWee 7 Division will use the coaches of the teams playing as umpires.

The PeeWee 8 and Minor Divisions will use youth umpires.

The Major Division will use youth umpires in the field and certified or more experienced umpires behind the plate. All umpires will be paid an appropriate fee.

The Prep 13U, Prep 14/15U, and Prep 16-18U Divisions will use certified or more experienced umpires in the field and behind the plate.

Plate and base umpires will be assigned upon availability.

The Umpire Coordinator will hold an umpiring clinic prior to the season starting.

On officiated games, the umpiring crew keeps the official game time. The time limit rule is in effect and will be enforced. No new inning will start after the time limit has expired and the game will be considered a regulation game. When time expires and either team is up by more than their respective run rule limit, the game will end as an official game.

When drop-dead is reached one of the following will apply:

• If the visiting team is at bat, or if the home team is at bat and losing, the score will default to the last completed inning.
• If the home team is winning, or the game is tied, the score at the drop-dead time stands.

The game ends when the visiting team completes its half of the last inning, and the home team is winning. If the visiting team has scored fewer runs than the home team has scored in their allotted innings, both the inning and the game end immediately when the winning run is scored and before three players are out.

If a game is called by the umpire because of weather, darkness, or any other cause which makes further play impossible before it becomes a regulation game, it will become a suspended game. The official scorekeeper will record the suspended time of play in GameChanger. At a later date, as scheduling allows, the game will be resumed from the point of play where the game was suspended. (For example, games will resume at the point of play with runners on base, same number of outs, and with the same batter count when play was suspended.) For pitch count purposes, the innings pitched during a resumed game will be considered during the week the game is resumed, not from the week it was suspended.

Bad Weather – The game will be considered a full game due to bad weather if one hour has elapsed or three* complete innings have been played.

• *Prep 13U, Prep 14/15U, and Prep 16-18U Divisions must complete four innings.

Should the game be considered complete, based on time or innings, one of the following will apply:

• If the visiting team is at bat, or if the home team is at bat and losing, the score will default to the last completed inning.
• If the home team is winning, or the game is tied, the score at the drop-dead time stands.

Lightning – Games will be stopped for 30 minutes when lightning is detected within five miles of the baseball park. Any subsequent lightning after the beginning of the 30 minute delay will reset the clock for another 30 minutes. If the time exceeds the playing time the game will be considered a suspended game or a regulation game due to bad weather.