At a big family reunion this past weekend, someone busted out some wiffle balls and bat, anyway I havent taken any cuts in a very long time and it showed. But we all had a blast with it, that ball can do some crazy stuff once you start figuring it out. I was wondering if anyone here plays any and what are the exact rules for like 4 to 8 players.
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I used to play all the time. My cousin will have two tournaments a year at his house where he erected a replica Fenway Park in his front yard.
There are official rules at wiffleball.com but most people play with "house" rules. We always played it with no more than three fielders at a time with a folding chair (a lawn chair, not a folding chair like the ones you see on Monday Night Raw) as a strike zone. We usually played going towards someone's house. A ground ball that stopped before it was fielded, got by the fielders, or was bobbled by the fielders was a single. Anything off the side of the house was a double. A ball that went onto the roof but came back was a triple, and anything over the house was a homerun. Ghost runners, of course. And aside from that, the rest was regular baseball rules (3 outs an inning, 4 balls equals a walk, etc). I know in some leagues you could only see a maximum of 8 pitches, the argument being it can be pretty easy to just foul off a wiffleball to stay alive but if you're up against a good pitcher that can be a challenge. -
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Wiffleball is amazing. Me and my friends play it all the time, usually 5 on 5. We usually make our rules dependent on where we play. The ones we always use though are:
3 foul balls- strikeout
Infield Fly rule
If 7 runs are scored by one team in an inning, the inning is over (can be more runs if the 7th run is scored on a multi-run homer)
No leads on the bases, can only run on contact
A runner can be tagged out by throwing the ball and hitting him, unless he's hit in the head, in which case the runner is awarded the base
If a fielder throws the ball out of play, the runner(s) advance 1 base
That's all I can think of right now, the rest depend on the field.Comment
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we always played 1 on 1. 1 strike is an out. Pitcher catches the ball on the ground before it goes by him, and it's an out. 1b's , 2b's 3b's and HR's are determined by how far you hit it. We had everything marked out. We had a lawn chair behind home plate. If you didn't swing and the ball landed in the chair it was an out too.My Fan Page http://theusualgamer.net/MyFanPage_Heelfan71.aspx
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Played it way back in the day, mostly on summer vacation with my brother and cousin. We played a "three team" game that our last two seasons had included two sets of stacked cardboard boxes (about 6 feet by 3 feet) positioned on the human pitcher's right side (roughly the 3B & SS position) that registered an out if they were hit. The pitcher played infield and the second human player played outfield/infield and covered first base if a throw was necessary. You hit it into the trees for a home run. If you hit a lined fly that landed under the trees before it touched the ground that was also a HR. You could hit a runner with the ball for an out and a foul on the 3rd strike was an out. Very much a mini field-home plate to the trees couldn't have been much more than 100 feet.....I think.Comment
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Wiffle ball is okay.....
Stoop ball is better(stoop ball was king when I was a kid)
but stickball and even better strikebox is where it's at !!
M.K.
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Last time I played wiffle ball was my senior year in highschool, I was nasty. I think I had 18 total ABs, batted 1.000. I was unstoppable. And yes I kept track how many ABs I had. I was that good, unfortunately it's the only sport i'm good at.Comment
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When I set up a game it's usually 1 on 1 on 1.
I took a large piece of plywood, cut out a strike zone and staple-gunned a net to the back of the wood for the strike zone. Any pitch that hits the net is a strike, if not it's a ball.
We play at my parent's house in the back yard. It's a perfect natural set up as far as the location of the house which is right field and a line trees that makes up left field. It's a great natural stadium.
All regular baseball rules besides that, 9 innings, 3 strikes, 4 balls, 3 outs. The only difference is once you throw four balls instead of getting a BB the pitcher has to lob in a meatball (can't throw any breaking pitch or a fastball) and will do so repeatedly until the batter swings at one. If he misses or fouls it off the ball count resets to zero but the strike count remains the same."You make your name in the regular season, and your fame in the postseason." - Clyde Frazier
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I was an above average hitter in HS baseball....about .350 w/gap to gap power.....but I can't hit a wiffleball to save my life.
I've never been able to understand it. I either pop it straight up or hit it straight into the ground.
There is a big wiffleball tournament (Im talking out of state teams) in my hometown every year. I've umpired it for the past 3 years, but never have put a team together to give it a shot.Comment
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We played 2 on 2 games in high school for 2 summers in a row. We had a whole league. I don't remember specific rules, but we had three fields we used (three of our back yards), all with their unique features. My back yard hasn't recovered 6 years later, there is still a huge area of dead grass around the pitchers mound.
I also had a pitch named after me after I discovered how to make the ball swerve about 15 horizontally on a 15 foot pitch.Comment
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