Masters League Rules

 2026 Spring

1 Legal Line Up: Each team has 12 plus players on their rosters. A legal line up must consist of at least 8 players from their legal roster. They may pick up 3 substitutes to gave them up to a total of 11 players for that nights game. They may play with as few as their 8 roster players if they choose to. Any less than 8 rostered players will be deemed a forfeit and a loss in the the standings. If neither team can field a legal line up it will be considered a double loss in the league standings. Any team that has to forfeit may choose to practice or have a practice game during the time slot of their original scheduled game.

2 Substitutes: Players may fill in as a substitute for another team, as long as they are not filling in for a lower rated player that they are replacing without the opposing team’s managers approval. They may also substitute for the same team as many as 3 times in the course of the season. Substitutes much be the last batters in the line up.

3 Substitute Base Runners: A substitute runner can run for anyone. A substitute runner may run multiple times in the same in for other runners, besides running for themselves during their own at bat. A substitute runner does not have to be in the batting order possibly due to an injury the may prevent them from swinging a bat but would still be able to run. A substitute runner may not go in and run for another substitute runner except in the instance where the first substitute runner gets injured and is unable to finish running that inning. In the case the substitute runner does get injured the first option for a replacement runner should be the person they ran for originally.

4 Home Run ( over the fence) Limits 1 UP rule: The Masters league will a rule of 1 UP home run with a limit of a maximum of 2 over the fence home runs allowed per game. A team cannot hit their second home run until their opponent hits their first, all extra home runs will be singles.