Now that the college baseball season is in full swing, there have likely been plenty of people who have noticed that while there have been games that had blowout scores, they didn’t always go nine innings. That has likely led to the question, does college baseball have a run rule?
The answer to that question is that yes, college baseball does have a 10 run rule. In other words, when a team gets up by 10 runs, and the game is late enough, the team with the large lead is considered the winner. However, things are not totally uniform. The NCAA allows for there to be a run rule in college baseball but it’s not required. It’s more that if a conference wants to do it that way, they can. The same can be said for non conference games. There needs to be an agreement between those two non conference teams.
Does college baseball have a run rule?
The college baseball run rule is similar to the softball mercy rule, with some changes. Mainly, the 10 run rule in college baseball is that a team with more than a 10 run lead after seven innings is the winner.
That in fact, just happened when Notre Dame baseball 10-runned the Florida State Seminoles in the friday night game.
Some conferences have been slow to adopt this rule. The SEC finally did it in 2023.
It’s definitely more of a sportsmanship guideline than something that every school and every team has to do if they don’t want to.
So does college baseball have a run rule? Yes, though it’s not a requirement.
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