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Ground Rules
2019 Season

1. RULES FOR ALL FIELDS:

  • No alcoholic beverages are permitted on the fields, benches or parking lots either before, during or after the game.  This pertains to softball league members and all spectators.

  • Place all trash in the receptacles behind the backstops.  We want to keep the fields clean.  If you come across any trash on the fields or in the parking lots please pick up and toss away.

  • No extended gathering in the parking lots after the games.  Once your game is over, please move your gathering elsewhere and look around to ensure the environment is clean.

2. FIELD A

  •  An A field has not been established for the 2019 season.

3. FIELD B (at Lapp Road) RULES:

  • On the Right Field Side: 

    • The out of play area extends from the end of the bench to the bottom of the hill to the tree line.

  • Foul Lines are marked by yellow tubing cover 12'/14' posts.  

  • In Right Field:  

    • The 12'/14' posts are at the end of the fence.

    • Trees are considered out of play.  Umpire will declare a Dead Ball.  

    • If the ball is touched in fair territory by a fielder and then bounces into foul territory and around the end of fence, the outfielder must signal the Umpire by raising his/her hand – the Umpire will make the call.

    • If the ball hits in fair territory and then bounces into foul territory and around the end of fence, the outfielder must signal the Umpire by raising his/her hand -- it will be ruled a Ground Rule Double.

  • If the ball rolls under the fence, the outfielder must signal the Umpire by raising his/her hand.  The Umpire will award a Ground Rule Double.

  • If the ball bounces over the fence it is a Ground Rule Double.

  • Any ball hit over the fence in the air is a Homerun.

4. FIELD C (at Lapp Road) RULES:

  • On the Left Field Side: 

    • The out of play area extends from the end of the bench to the bottom of the hill and rides the bottom of the hill.

  • Foul Lines are marked by yellow tubing cover 12'/14' posts.  

  • In Left Field, 

    • The 12'/14' posts are at the end of the fence.

    • If the ball is touched in fair territory by a fielder and then bounces into foul territory and around the end of fence, the outfielder must signal the Umpire by raising his/her hand – the Umpire will make the call.

    • If the ball hits in fair territory and then bounces into foul territory and around the end of fence, the outfielder must signal the Umpire by raising his/her hand.  The Umpire will award a Ground Rule Double.

  • If the ball rolls under the fence, the outfielder must signal the Umpire by raising his/her hand.  The Umpire will award a Ground Rule Double.

  • If the ball bounces over the fence it is a Ground Rule Double.

  • Any ball hit over the fence in the air is a Homerun.

GVCC Softball League
Updated: 03/16/2019

Great Valley Corporate Center Softball League
 Malvern, PA 19355        
www.gvccsl.com