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All About Baseball
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Baseball Terms Balk – Any pitching motion that is against the baseball rules. The pitcher is not to try and trick the base runners with illegal motions. Battery – The battery includes two baseball players, the pitcher and the catcher. Bunt – When a batter holds the baseball bat out and tries to barely tap the ball versus taking a full swing at the ball. The batter might do this to advance another base runner. Change up – A slow pitch that is meant to look much faster. Cleanup – The fourth batter in the batting order. Usually a power hitter. Count – The number of balls and strikes on a batter. For example a 3/2 count means there are three balls and two strikes on the batter. Double play – A defensive baseball play that results in two outs. Fly ball – A baseball that is hit high into the air. Foul ball – A baseball that is hit outside the field of fair play.
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Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a 90-foot diamond. Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins. Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-18th The baseball diamond at Wrigley Field, Chicago century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modAmerica, parts of Central and South professional Major League Baseball ern version developed. By the late 19th America and the Caribbean, and parts of (MLB) teams are divided into the century, baseball was widely recognized East Asia. National League (NL) and American as the national sport of the United States. In the United States and Canada, League (AL), each with three divisions: Baseball now is popular in North East, West and Central. The major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Five teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus two wild card teams. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League; Cuba's West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific and both Cuban leagues, there is a 10th player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams.
Alexander Cartwright (1820-1892) of New York invented the modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club devised the first rules and regulations that were accepted for the modern game of baseball.
Ground ball – A baseball that is hit on the ground. Also called a "grounder." Hit and run – A baseball play where the base runner begins to run when the pitch is released. It's the batter's responsibility to hit the baseball into play so the runner will not get out. This gives the base runner a head start.
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