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Knothole
Franchise Representative - Jim Diana 
Coaches:
Last night I attended a CCKB meeting and we discussed the issue of games not getting completed because of darkness or weather. Below is the ruling on how all games should be completed. Basically in a nutshell, all games must be completed regardless of what inning you are in if it’s postponed due to weather or darkness. The only way a game will be considered a complete game is if all innings are played or it’s mathematically impossible for a team to win because of the run rule. Please take the time to read through this.
1) All games for the first half of the season must be completed by May 26th. Due to all the rain this is an extension, the first half was due to finish May 19th. On May 27th Gene will start making out the new divisions for the second half of the season and should have those posted on the CCKB website by May 28th. The second half of the season will start on Saturday May 30th so be prepared to play.
2) All games for the second half of the season must be completed by July 2nd. The County and City Tournament will start July 6th. < /div>
Subject: Completed Game
Managers & Umps,
Many of you have run into this situation this year already, so I will attempt to help clear things up…
Rule #14 under CCKB playing rule simply states that a game is complete by one of two ways.
1. Innings per division are complete and a winner is decided
a. In the case of a tie after your allotted innings, both teams will continue to play until a winner is decided, regardless of the amount of time taking to do so. There is not a time limit in this type of game!
2. A winner is declared after it is mathematically impossible for the loosing team to either win or tie the game (please see 7 run rule per inning).
a. At this time, both managers may agree to finish out their remaining innings as long as they do no start a new inning after 2 hour from the start of the game. This is the only instance where the 2 hour time limit comes into play!
Any game that does not fall under either of these two cases (weather, darkness) will be considered suspended. These will not be counted as a win by the team with the higher score at that point and are to be scheduled for completion. It does not matter if you are in the top of your last inning with two outs, it still needs to be finished.
This game is to be started from exactly where you left off. The exceptions to this are…
1. Any player that was not in attendance at the start of the game but is there for the completion, will be inserted at the end of the batting order.
2. A player that was in attendance for the start of the game and not the completion, will be skipped in batting order and not counted as an out. The exception to this is if this would take you to below nine. Then, his spot in the order is an out.
3. For your pitcher, since this is a new day, and your pitcher(s) have rested at least 2 nights, they are able to be used again to finish this game. Remember, if you are finishing this game and playing a complete game on the same day, these pitchers innings and pitch count apply for both games. A pitch count is determined by one day and does not carryover in the completion of a suspended game.
