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Baseball to Cricket
- You can't strike out. Swing and miss as much as you like.
- There's no foul territory. Hit the ball anywhere you like.
- There are no balls. The pitcher is even allowed to bounce the ball on the ground before it reaches the batter.
- There are no walks either. If you get hit by a pitch, tough.
- If you hit the ball, you only have to run if you think it's safe to do so. Otherwise, stay where you are and take another pitch.
- If you reach home plate and score a run, don't go back to the dugout. Stay there to face the next pitch. Or keep running on to first again if you wish.
- When you get out, no matter what base you're on, the next batter comes in to replace you where you were.
- The bases are always loaded.
- So if you hit a home run, that's 4 runs. But don't bother actually running the bases, since that's pointless. Just stay where you are.
- Take the gloves off the fielders.
- Once you're out, you can't bat again in the same inning.
- The team's inning is only over when 6 players are out, since this leaves only 3 players who aren't out to man the bases.
- Let's increase a home run to scoring 6 runs, but still the batters don't move any bases when one is hit.
- Reduce the number of bases from four to two.
- Replace each base with three upright wooden poles in a row, 28 inches high, with the outermost two 9 inches apart.
- When batting, you are out if the pitcher hits the poles with a pitch, or if you get in the way and he hits you. You better defend them with your bat!
- If the ball hits the wall around the field, let's automatically score 4 runs and the ball is out of play.
- Increase the number of players from 9 to 11 per team. So now, the inning is over when 10 players are out, since that just leaves one player and two bases to man.
- Reduce the number of innings from nine to two.