| What is baseball?
(A definition by Wikipedia.)
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between
two teams of nine players each.
The goal 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 ninety-foot square, or diamond.
Players on one team (the batting team) take
turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the
fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring 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; nine innings
make up a professional game.
The team with the most runs at the end of
the game wins! |