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Beardsley Field Checklist

Pre-Game

  • Remove tarps and place down foul line
  • Drag Field if needed (gator in shed)
  • Rake base lines (using motion up and down from home to first and third, not across the line creating a ravine)
  • Rake mound if needed
  • Line field (machine and string in shed with lime and spray paint)
  • Bases are in lock box on B2, they stay out on B1
  • On B1 ensure for LL games that bases are at 60’ and rubber at 45’
  • Remotes are in box inside lock box
  • Open bathrooms

Post-Game

  • Rake infield if time permit
  • Rake baselines if time permits
  • Turn off scoreboard – put remotes back in lock box
  • Put bases back in lock box
  • Place tarps back on field
  • Clean up dugouts- empty recycling bins if needed
  • Lock gate, shed and bathrooms on the way out.

Pitch Count Cheat Sheet

Maximum Pitches per day

  • Little League Age 11 and 12 (players age as of 8/31 of this year): 85 pitches
  • Age 9-10: 75 pitches
  • Age 8: 50 pitches

Rest Days (calculated in our system when pitches are input)

  • 66 or more pitches in a day, four (4) calendar days of rest required (Day 1 is the day after pitching, so if a player throws 70 pitches on a Tuesday, he/she must rest Wed, Thurs, Fri and Sat before pitching again)
  • 51-65 pitches in a day, three (3) calendar days of rest required.
  • 36-50 pitches in a day, two (2) calendar days of rest required.
  • 21-35 pitches in a day, one (1) calendar day of rest is required
  • 1-20 pitches in a day, no calendar day of rest is required before pitching again
  • Pitchers may not pitch three days in a row regardless of pitches.

Pitches thrown in travel count!!!!

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