 "Baseball is a
sport played
between two
teams usually
of nine players each. It is a
bat-and-ball
game in which a
pitcher
throws (pitches)
a hard, fist-sized, leather-covered
ball toward a
batter on the
opposing team. The batter attempts to hit the baseball with a
tapered cylindrical
bat, made of
wood (as required in
professional baseball)
or a variety of other materials (as allowed in many
nonprofessional games). A team scores
runs only
when batting, by advancing its players—primarily via
hits—counterclockwise
past a series of four markers called
bases
arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or "diamond."
The game, played without time restriction, is structured
around nine segments called
innings. In
each inning, both teams are given the opportunity to bat and
score runs; a team's half-inning ends when three
outs
are recorded against that team."
Source:
Wikipedia |
