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Baseball
The Basics
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The team who scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.
Baseball Highlight CatchesPositions
- Pitcher
- Catcher
- First Base
- Second Base
- Short Stop
- Third base
- Left Field
- Center Field
- Right Field
Ways to make an out
Catch the ball the the batter hits
Throw the ball to the base before the runner reaches the base
Tag the runner with ball in glove in between bases
How to score runs
When a runner gets on base, usually by hitting the ball and reaching base safely or earning a walk, it is the next hitter in the lineup's job to "drive him in."
A run is scored when a runner crosses home plate safely; either being driven in by a hit, an error, a fielder's choice, or a walk with the bases loaded. A batter can score a run
by himself by hitting a home run, usually accomplished by hitting a ball over the outfield fence. If a home run is hit, the batter and everybody on base scores. The team that scores
more runs over the course of nine innings wins the game.