Fall 2026Tuesday Night Baseball

No. Any 10U or 11U team can enter. All star teams, rec teams playing up, and teams that formed last month are all welcome. A new pitcher every inning flattens the talent gap more than you would expect.

That is the problem the whole league is built around. One inning per pitcher, and a coach who can pull anybody the moment he does not like what he sees. Your rotation is untouched Saturday morning.

Redding, every Tuesday. We are locking fields now and the location goes out with the schedule before opening night, so you will know where you are playing before you enter a single date on a calendar.

Then you have four who have pitched before and a couple who are about to. Six innings means six different arms, and nine different players have to throw before anybody throws a second inning. That is the whole league in one rule. Somebody on your bench finds out he can pitch, and by November you do not have four arms anymore.

No. It runs inside one game and starts fresh the next Tuesday. Six innings, then the slate is clean.

The nine matters because of mid inning changes. Anybody who takes the mound is used, even if he faced one batter, so pulling your starter in the first burns two arms in the first inning. Do that a couple of times and you will hit nine inside six innings, and at that point anybody can come back out for one inning, same as the first time around.

The league books and pays an umpire for every game, and that is who works it. On the rare night nobody turns up, the game is still played and it still counts. The coach whose team is in the field calls balls and strikes from behind the mound. That is the fair version of it: neither coach ever calls his own hitters, every hitter on both teams is called by the other team's coach, and if you squeeze a kid in the second you will be standing out there for his teammate in the third. Base calls go to the closest coach and a tie goes to the runner. Whoever is calling the pitch has the final say on it, and nobody argues a call in a game he is helping umpire.

Yes, and you should. Every 9U player is age legal for this division, so nothing changes on paper. Two things to know: the bases are 65 feet, which is longer than some 9U fields, and you will lose some games in September. By November your kids will have seen better arms every week than a 9U season would show them all year.

If the fields close, the night is off for everyone. That is different from a team not showing up, which is a loss. The league does not run makeups, so a cancelled night comes off the season. If the two coaches can figure out another night and a field on their own, play it and text the group the result. It counts.

Tell us when you enter and we will build around it where we can. Once the schedule posts the league does not move it. If you and the other coach can work out another night and a field between you, go ahead and play it. A team that simply cannot field nine takes the loss.

Nine Tuesdays of regular season set the seeds. On November 3 the one seed plays the four and the two plays the three, both games at the same time. The winners meet the following Tuesday, November 10, for the championship. No extra weekend, no travel, same night as every other game.

One group text, head coaches only. Weather calls, schedule notes, and anything else go out there and nowhere else. It stays short, so nobody misses the message that matters.

The home coach keeps the official book and texts the final to the group before he leaves the field. That is the record. If neither team keeps a book, the umpire's card is the game.

A small crew keeps the schedule and books the fields and the umpires. On the field, the coaches run it. Whoever is calling the pitch that night has the final call, umpire or coach, and that is the end of it. No board, no sanctioning body, no politics.