La plaquita or la placa (English: little plate) is a

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played in the Dominican Republic with many similarities to

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. Several Dominican

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players have attested to playing it as children.

Rules

Two teams of two players take turns fielding and batting. There are two

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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. 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

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the batter out by knocking over the wicket with the ball.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." Whichever team has more runs at the end of the game wins.

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