Go Yard Rules

Go Yard mirrors the core of baseball—outs, strikes, base hits, and big plays—but packs it into a fast, competitive yard game. Whether you’re playing 1v1 or 5v5, here’s everything you need to know to play it right.

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⚾ Game Format

• Two teams compete in top and bottom halves of innings

• 3 outs per half inning

• Teams decide how many innings to play before the game begins

• The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins

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🥎 Pitching & Batting

• All pitches must be thrown overhand from the pitcher’s rubber (45 feet from home plate)

• A pitch is a strike only if it hits the strike zone

• Pitches that miss the strike zone are balls

• Batters face a standard count: 3 strikes = out, 4 balls = walk

• Foul balls count as strikes (but no strikeout on a foul)

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🚨 Hit Outcomes

The result of each hit depends on where the ball comes to rest:

• Caught in the Air? The batter-runner is out.

• Ghost Runners advance the same number of bases as the hit.

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🧤 Defense & Fielding Plays

Fielding Clean Ground Balls

If a fielder picks up the ball cleanly after it bounces, they may throw the ball at the strike zone to reduce the hit result:

• Hit the strike zone:

  • A double becomes a single

  • A single becomes an out

Catching in Double or Triple Zones

If a fielder catches the ball on the fly in the double or triple zones, the batter-runner is out, but...

• Ghost runners on base may attempt to advance one base

• The fielder may throw to the strike zone to try to stop them

• If the fielder hits the strike zone, the lead ghost runner is out

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🏃 Base Running (Ghost Runners)

• When a batter gets a hit, ghost runners automatically advance the same number of bases

• Runners only “score” if they advance past home

• Ghost runners can be thrown out on fielding plays as described above

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✅ Quick Recap

• Strike zone = strikes and fielding targets

• Dead zone = always an out

• Hit zones = determine base outcomes

• Clean fielding + hitting the strike zone can change the play

• Ghost runners keep the pace fast and the scoring simple

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📸 Need a Visual?

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