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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