How Baseball Works
If you know nothing about baseball, the basics are simple enough to comprehend. You have 2 teams with 9 players on each team. Although the defense performs the field, the offense bats.
The group that is batting tries to hit on the ball once the defensive team’s pitcher throws it. He runs around the bases, if the batter succeeds. His goal is to reach home base.
The defense can prevent the crime from running around the bases in various ways. The easiest way would be for the pitcher to strike the batter out. If a batter misses 3 pitches in his turn , he’s out. When a group has 3 workouts, the teams switch sides–the offense takes the field, and the defense gets their turn at bat.
The defense may also get a batter out by grabbing the ball after the batter hits it. Before he reaches a base, or they could tag a player. (The defensive player must have the ball to tag the player out.)
When every group has had a turn in batting and a turn in fielding, that is an inning. A baseball game lasts for 9 innings, unless they go into extra innings. This occurs when there’s a tie. Unlike football, there’s no clock in baseball. Until there’s a winner, the game lasts.
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