Playing for Peanuts
 

Comcast has been airing a docu-series on the South Georgia Peanuts baseball team.
Has anyone seen this? I thought it was a one-time special on the schedule.

The episode I saw today during the White Sox rain delay featured a double-switch.
Peanuts manager told the PU that a manager (the opposing skip) must make the switch before going to the mound and lift his pitcher.
I'm not aware of this rule. Anyone?

On the switch, the new RF would bat 9th, the new pitcher 8th. Said the PU, "I didn't know you could switch batting positions." :eek:
Now I assume the the switch involved new players. But from that comment, I ain't so sure. Peanuts coach didn't object.

The Peanuts are in the South Coast League. Independent A from what I could tell. League suspended operations in April.

The Peanuts' manager was correct. It's in either one of the interp books (PBUC / MLBUM) or other "league administration" manual.

This is the rule you are looking for in the OBR:

Rule 3.03

A player, or players, may be substituted during a game at any time the ball is dead. A substitute player shall bat in the replaced player’s position in the team’s batting order. A player once removed from a game shall not re-enter that game. If a substitute enters the game in place of a player-manager, the manager may thereafter go to the coaching lines at his discretion. When two or more substitute players of the defensive team enter the game at the same time, the manager shall, immediately before they take their positions as fielders, designate to the umpire-in-chief such players’ positions in the team’s batting order and the umpire-in-chief shall so notify the official scorer. If this information is not immediately given to the umpire-in-chief, he shall have authority to designate the substitutes’ places in the batting order.