Plaquita

La plaquita or la placa (English: little plate) is a bat-and-ball game played in the Dominican Republic with many similarities to cricket.[1][2]

A batter stands in front of his makeshift wicket.

Several Dominican MLB baseball players have attested to playing it as children.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Rules
The bowler (cricket) prepares to throw the ball from his wicket.

Two teams of two players take turns fielding and batting. There are two wickets which are license plates (called placas in Spanish), with one fielder behind and one batter in front of each wicket. Batters run between the wickets to score runs, with one run scored for each swap of the batters, though they can be put out if a fielder runs them out by hitting a wicket with the ball while they are away from it.[9] One of the fielding team's players throws the ball to the batter at the opposite wicket, who may then try to hit it. The fielding team's goal is to bowl the batter out by knocking over the wicket with the ball.[10] Whichever team has more runs at the end of the game wins.

See also

References
  1. "DR1.com - Dominican Republic News & Travel Information Service". dr1.com. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  2. "Federation Focus: Baseball is in Dominican Republic's DNA". wbsc.org. Retrieved 2021-10-13.
  3. "Vladimir Guerrero finally explained why he's so great at hitting balls on the bounce". MLB.com. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  4. https://www.jockbio.com/Bios/Vlad/Vlad_bio.html"The kids of Nizao Bani enjoyed a form of baseball known as La Placa. Home was a license plate, and a batter had to keep his bat touching the dish until the pitcher released the ball. This made Vladimir a great low ball hitter."
  5. "Victor Robles electrifies the Nationals with risky but rewarding play". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  6. "A Leap of Faith". MiLB.com. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
  7. https://www.mlb.com/news/indians-jose-ramirez-talks-baseball-as-youth-c256641746"My name is José Ramírez, and I love baseball. I mean, I really love it. Growing up, in Bani -- a beautiful city in the Dominican Republic -- the number one thing on my mind was baseball. We were always playing "Vitilla" and another game called "La Plaquita" with the kids from my neighborhood all day long. We used water jug caps as baseballs and sticks for bats in Vitilla. La Plaquita is another baseball-type game we played in the streets."
  8. Young, David (2012-03-20). "2012 Dodgers Player Profile: Rubby De La Rosa, The Gem Had A Flaw". True Blue LA. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
  9. http://diccionariolibre.com/definicion/La-Plaquita"en la parte delantera de la placa se dibuja un triangulo o un semi-circulo de acuerdo al gusto de los jugadores [...] Si no se esta al turno en el bate se debe siempre tener la punta del bate dentro del home (el triangulo o semi-circulo) sino el contrario puede tumbar la plaquita y es es [sic] un out."
  10. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/baseball/2017/07/02/jos-buttler-alex-hales-take-swing-whole-new-ball-game/“Back home we have a game called la plaquita. It’s street-ball, with a stick. You get a licence plate off a car – una placa – you bend it, stand it up in the street to make a target. Then another down the street, like this.” Grabbing my notepad, Pena sketches out a pitch with two wicket-like objects at each end, and explains that you play two v two, a batter at each end. You defend la placa, you hit, you and your partner run, you ground your bat to get safe."


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