WELCOME VETERANS & SENIORS, they’re Families & Friends! We’re happy to bring the opportunity of sports in the fresh air of our public North Hollywood Park!!
DUE TO GAMES RUNNING LATE, we’re enforcing game start times. It begins with players getting there ON TIME!! Game 1 STARTS at 915am. Game 2 STARTS at 1045am!!
There will now be a 10-minute Grace period, but if the games don’t start at 925am or 1055am, the team or BOTH teams if short of players will suffer a FORFEIT as far as official wins or loses. Games may still be played as Forfeited games, but any of these games being played in the 1st time slot, must STOP playing at 11am, ‘DROP DEAD’, no matter where they are in the inning or the game. This will allow the 2nd game to start on-time. No 1st game shall go on later than 11am, and NO NEW INNING can start after 1045am. In the 2nd game, we only have the field rented until 1230pm. Games should officially end then. If the mangers want to continue after that, and no park rental is waiting to use the field, it’s their choice to continue. To assist in getting games started or finished faster:
– A Home Team can surrender home field advantage, become the new “visitor team”, so they can bat offensively 1st, giving a little more time for late players to arrive. But once a team is on defense, they must have 7 of their own players, (including players not on another team’s roster) to start & play an official game.
– In the 7th inning, IF THE VISITING TEAM IS UP BY 5 RUNS OR MORE, the managers CAN decide to “FLIP FLOP” the 7th inning, letting the Home team hit at the Top of the 7th Inning (Immediately after their ‘bottom of the 6th inning at-bats’). This could save a half-inning of playing time, especially if the lead wasn’t something they might not have over-come with those at-bats. But, If they do manage to tie or get a lead in the score, then the visiting team will still be able to bat at the bottom of the 7th inning.