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The new ruling is a combination of pitches and recovery days. There will be a daily limit of 125 pitches. There also will be varied recovery days: 1-30 pitches, zero days recovery; 31-50, one day; 51-75, two days; 76-plus, three days.
Other new pitch-count rules are a limit of one game in a doubleheader if the total surpasses 31; a daily pitch count may be exceeded to finish an at-bat; schools must supply daily pitch-count data to a collection system and have it available to the OHSAA upon request; suspended games will count toward pitch counts; scrimmages and preview pitch counts will count.
Also, teams will forfeit any game in which a pitch count is violated.
Previously in Ohio, pitchers were regulated by an innings-pitched rule. There are no pitch limits for softball.
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