If you’re not familiar with baseball, the game can seem pretty complicated at first. However, if you take it one step at a time, learning the basics of the sport can be easy. The main thing to remember is that you want to hit the ball with power. Then you need to learn how to run the bases and avoid getting tagged out. Once you have that down, it’s easy to get caught up in the thrill of watching your team score runs!
The sport of baseball is played between two teams of nine players. Each team has a pitcher and three fielders. The pitcher is the person who throws the ball to the batter. The catcher is the player who stands behind the batter and tries to catch any missed balls. The other players on the defensive side of the field are called the infielders, and they position themselves on first base, second base and third base. There are also three outfielders, and they are positioned in left field, center field and right field.
When a person on the offensive team is ready to bat, they will line up in front of home plate. Then, based on a lineup card, one person at a time will step up to bat. The batter will then place their hands on the bat and swing it at the pitch. If they miss the ball, they will have a strike. If they miss three strikes in a row, they will be out of the at-bat.
A runner is any member of the batting team who makes it past one or more bases without getting tagged out. The runner can touch any number of bases before they have to return to the starting point, called home plate. The runner can only be tagged out when a fielder throws the ball directly to the base the runner is trying to reach or touches the runner with the ball.
In order to get a run, a runner must make it to all the bases in the correct order. They must also touch home plate to be declared safe. Runners can be dismissed by’strike out’ (when the batter misses three pitches), ‘fly out’ (when a ball is hit in the air and caught without hitting any of the bases) and ‘tag outs’ (when a defensive player tags the batter with the ball).