NCBL CONSTITUTION
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL BASEBALL LEAGUE
CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS
as revised June 15, 2023
Additional noteworthy NCBL RuleDifferences from Standard Baseball
- by-law 2.2: games are 7 inning/extra innings within time limit. Mercy rule of 10 runs any time after 5 innings (including playoffs).
- by-law 2.2 NOTE 1: playoff games are guaranteed to be 7 innings as long as run differential is less than 5 runs. If stoppage becomes necessary game is suspended.
- by-law 2.2 NOTE 2: in playoff games, if the visiting team scores any runs in the top of an extra inning and stoppage becomes necessary, the game is suspended.
- by-laws 2.2 NOTE 3: if a playoff game starts and a stoppage becomes necessary before the 5th inning, the game is suspended.
- by-law 2.4: teams in all tiers can play with only 8 players. Automatic out for 9th batting slot.
- by-law 2.5: grace period is usually 15 minutes but is 30 minutes for 6:15 games with no change in 8:15 end time
.- by-law 2.9: in case of injury or ejection, when no substitutes remain, any player except an ejected player may re-enter the game.
- by-law 2.11: DH is permitted for any defensive player. Player being DH'ed for can only pinch hit for the DH unless the DH plays defensively first.
- by-law 2:15: pitchers shall be limited to 5 warm-up pitches between innings
- by-law 4:18: catcher hurry up rule. Whenever there are 2 outs, a catcher who is on base may choose to be replaced by the last out.
- by-law 4.19: wood bats only in all tiers.
- by-law 6.6: players may be ejected even after play has ended. This is considered a 7th inning ejection for suspension purposes.