How Many Innings In A Little League Baseball Game?
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Find out how many innings are in a Little League baseball game.
Introduction
A Little League baseball game consists of six innings. Each inning consists of each team having a turn batting and each player on the team getting a chance to bat. The batting team tries to score runs by hitting the ball and running around the bases. The team in the field tries to stop the other team from scoring by catching the ball and getting batters out.
What is the Length of a Little League Baseball Game?
A Little League baseball game consists of six innings, unless the home team is ahead after five innings have been completed. If the score is tied after six innings, play continues until one team is ahead after an equal number of extra innings have been played.
Regulation Games
A regulation game in Little League Baseball® is six innings long, however if the home team is ahead after five and a half innings have been completed, or if the game has gone into extra innings, the game is considered official at that point and will not be continued.
If a team is ahead by ten or more runs after five innings have been completed, or three and a half if the home team is ahead, the game is over and the manager of the team that is behind may call for the game to end early. If, however, both managers agree that they would like to continue playing even though one team has a large lead, they may do so.
Tournament Games
Tournament games including Regionals, World Series, and other international tournaments, follow the same rules as regular season games with two exceptions. In tournament play, if a game is tied after regulation (9 innings), the game will go into extra innings. Each half inning, the batting team will start with a runner on second base. This runner will be the player who made the last out in the previous inning. The game will continue in this manner until one team breaks the tie.
The other exception has to do with time limits. In tournament play, each game is given a time limit. If a game is tied at the end of the time limit, it will go into extra innings just like a tied regulation game. However, each half inning will begin with a bases-loaded situation for the batting team.
Conclusion
In conclusion, a Little League baseball game consists of six innings. However, if the score is tied at the end of six innings, then the game will continue until one team is ahead by two or more runs, or until one team has played for ten innings.
