WBSC publishes new Baseball5 rulebook for the 5-on-5 urban game

WBSC publishes new Baseball5 rulebook for the 5-on-5 urban game
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ISLAMABAD, Sep 27 (APP): The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) has published the 2021 edition of the Baseball5 rulebook for the fast-paced five-on-five Youth Olympic discipline.

The main Baseball5 rule change concerns hitting. A modification to the hitting rule now states that a batter/hitter has to raise “the hand he/she intends to use” while entering the batter’s box, said a WBSC statement.

The ball “must be hit/slapped either with a palm or a fist” and have “enough momentum to reach the outfield fence” or, in the case of the U-15 category, “the outfield (passing the line that connects first-second-third base).

The rules consider “illegal behaviour”, and the batter is consequently out, if a hit ball, not touched by any defender, doesn’t reach the outfield fence or if a player slides to avoid a tag. Sliding is now forbidden in Baseball5.

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