Rounders: What Is It and How Do You Play?

GAA Rounders is one of the official GAA sports signed in the GAA charter in 1884.

Rounders is a bat and ball game quite similar to baseball, which has been played on the island of Ireland for a couple of hundred years.

Rounders can be played as both a mixed and separate gendered sport, if there is a mixed team there should be no more than 5 male players.

Nine players from each time are on the field at any one time. One team bats while the other team fields and bowls. The bowler bowls the ball to the batter who hits the ball forward on the Rounders Pitch.

Scoring and Winning

The batter has three chances to hit the ball towards the field and run in a straight line around the first, second, third and fourth home base.

If the ball is caught by the other team, a member of their team throws the ball to the base before the batter arrives, or if the batter doesn’t hit the ball in three goes, they are out.

The batter can also be out if they strike the ball onto foul ground.

Points can be scored by the batting team when one of its players finishes a circuit past all four bases, which is called a rounder.

The team that has scored the most rounders at the end of the game after five innings, wins.

Here at the Trinity GAA Society we have both mixed and separate gendered teams and are always looking for new players to join!