PONY Softball pitching rules
PONY Softball sets no pitching limit. Not pitches, not innings, not appearances, not rest days. I read PONY girls fastpitch — no national pitching restriction found on 2026-08-11 to check, because every summary I could find online disagreed with at least one other summary — and an absence is the hardest thing to confirm from a search result. This page records where I looked, so you can judge the answer rather than take it.
That is not a gap in the rulebook. It is how most softball organizations work: the decision belongs to your league. So whatever your league requires is the rule, and if your league requires nothing, nothing applies.
| Applies to | Limit | Game length |
|---|---|---|
| 8U | set by your league | 6 innings |
| 10U | set by your league | 6 innings |
| 12U | set by your league | 6 innings |
| 14U | set by your league | 7 innings |
| 16U | set by your league | 7 innings |
| 18U | set by your league | 7 innings |
Where I looked
Source: PONY girls fastpitch — no national pitching restriction found, checked 2026-08-11.
Published at: https://www.pony.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1026027
PONY applies its pitch-count framework to baseball only. Appearance limits in fastpitch are left to local league bylaws and tournament directors.
PONY also runs another program
PONY's rules are not the same across its programs, and the difference is a real one rather than an oversight on this page: PONY Softball sets no pitching limit while PONY Baseball does. If you coach both, expect them to behave differently — because the books do. See PONY Baseball.
Your league is the rule
With nothing set nationally, whatever your league's bylaws say is the whole of it — and leagues vary widely. A survey of fifteen published league and tournament rule sets in September 2026 found per-game caps ranging from two innings to nine, weekly caps from six to thirty, some leagues counting outs rather than innings, and eleven of the fifteen publishing no limit at all. There is no common figure to quote you.
So the honest thing a planning tool can do is ask you and then hold you to your own answer. Even Innings does that: tell it once what your league requires and it tracks and enforces it everywhere — the lineup sheet, the arms box and the practice plan — and prints on the sheet that the limits are yours, not PONY's.
Even Innings is a planning aid, not a compliance system. It cannot know what happened in a game, and it does not replace your rulebook or your league's own bylaws. Always confirm current-year specifics with your own league.