baseball
Also known as America's pastime, ⚾
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The
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Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport where two teams of nine players take turns batting and fielding, with the batting team trying to hit a pitched ball and run around four bases to score points called "runs." The game is played through a series of individual plays in which a pitcher throws the ball and a batter attempts to hit it into the field of play.
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Key facts
- Sport.name
- Baseball
- Sport.image
- File:Tommy Milone gives up a home run to Mike Trout on May 21, 2017.jpg
- Sport.imagesize
- 300px
- Sport.caption
- Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout hits a home run off a pitch from New York Mets pitcher Tommy Milone on May 21, 2017.
- Sport.union
- World Baseball Softball Confederation
- Sport.first
- 18th-century England (predecessors)19th-century United States (modern version)
- Sport.type
- Team sport, bat-and-ball
- Sport.venue
- Baseball parkBaseball field
- Sport.glossary
- Glossary of baseball terms
- Sport.region
- Worldwide (most prominent in the Americas and East Asia)
- Sport.contact
- Tagging-only
Article
46 sectionsContents
- Rules and gameplay
- Overview
- Fielding positions
- Offense
- Defense
- Batting order and substitution
- Personnel
- Players
- Managers and coaches
- Umpires
- Strategy
- Tactics
- Pitching and fielding
- Batting and baserunning
- History
- In the United States
- Establishment of professional leagues
- Rise of Ruth and racial integration
- Attendance records and the age of steroids
- Around the world{{Anchor|Around-the-world}}
- Distinctive elements
- No clock to kill
- Individual focus
- Uniqueness of parks
- Statistics
- Sabermetrics
- Popularity and cultural impact
- Western Hemisphere
- In the United States
- Latin America
- Caribbean
- Asia
- Europe
- Oceania
- Africa
- Among children
- In popular culture
- Derivative games
- British baseball
- Finnish baseball
- See also
- Related sports
- Citations
- General and cited sources
- Further reading
- External links
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners advancing around the bases. 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 initial objective of the batting team is to have a player reach first base safely; this occurs either when the batter hits the ball and reaches first base before an opponent retrieves the ball and touches the base, or when the pitcher persists in throwing the ball out of the batter's reach. Players on the batting team who reach first base without being called "out" can attempt to advance to subsequent bases as a runner, either immediately or during teammates' turns batting. The fielding team tries to prevent runs by using the ball to get batters or runners "out", which forces them out of the field of play. The pitcher can get the batter out by throwing three pitches which result in strikes, while fielders can get the batter out by catching a batted ball before it touches the ground, and can get a runner out by tagging them with the ball while the runner is not touching a base.