[Dakota]

This is a FED discussion, and all I have with me now is an ASA rulebook. Anyway, here is the ASA rule:

Rule 1 - Definitions:
DISQUALIFIED PLAYER A player removed from the game for a rule violation. A team may continue to play shorthanded (Rule 4-1-D) if no substitutes are available. Any disqualified player discovered participating in the game will constitute a forfeit.
EJECTED PLAYER A player or coach removed from the game by the umpire, usually for an unsportsmanlike act or conduct. A flagrant act will require the player or coach to leave the grounds for the remainder of the game. A team may NOT continue play shorthanded (Rule 4-1-D). If no substitutes are available the game is a forfeit.

RULE 4. PLAYERS, COACHES, SUBSTITUTES
SECTION 1. Players
D. Short-Handed Rule
2. To continue a game once started with a full team listed on batting order:
a. If a team begins play with the required number of players as listed, that team may continue a game with one less player than it started with (Slow Pitch and Coed) or one less player the is currently in the line-up (Fast Pitch), whenever a player leaves the game for any reason other than ejection. NOTE: Under no circumstances shall a team be permitted to bat less than nine (Slow Pitch) or eight (Fast Pitch).

I thought FED's rule was very similar, if not the same. Maybe not.

[Edited by Dakota on Jan 22nd, 2001 at 05:43 PM]