U14’s Rules Quiz #1

The batter bunts foul on the third strike. Is the ruling dead ball and the batter is out?

All awarded bases must be touched in legal order?

When a runner is returning to a missed base, during a live ball play, he or she is not required to touch bases in reverse order?

Before calling a runner out for missing a base, umpires must wait for the defensive team to appeal the missed base?

Coach talking on a mobile phones in the dugout is illegal?

The runner is out when they physically pass a preceding runner, before that runner has been called out.

The batter’s hands are considered part of the bat?

A legally batted ball comes to rest in the batter’s box or on home plate, it is always a Foul Ball?

When tagging up on a fly ball, the runner can use either portion of first base.

A substitute is not officially in the game until a pitch has been thrown or a play made.

After the batter first enters the batter’s box, he must remain in the box between pitches by keeping at least one foot in the box, including while taking signals and practice swings. Unless a swing, or an attempted swing, which includes a slap or check swing, where the momentum of the swing carries the batter out of the batter’s box

Once a team has had a warning for being out of the dugout area, the next offence shall result in the ejection of the team member.

The batter-runner interferes with a play at home plate, preventing an obvious out. In this instance both the batter-runner and the runner are out?

A player that is bleeding must be withdrawn from the game if the bleeding cannot be stopped within a reasonable time, or if there is blood on the uniform.

The pitcher pitches a ball that passes over the plate and below the batters sternum/cheast bone when they are in their natural batting stance. This is a Strike.