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A database of terms that relate to the sport of baseball, a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players. The aim 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 90-foot diamond.

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league

Sports; Baseball

There are two leagues in baseball: The National League and the American League. The leagues are a group of clubs whose teams play each other in a pre-arranged schedule. During the playoffs only teams ...

ground ball

Sports; Baseball

This is a batted ball that hits the ground and then rolls on it. It is not hit in the air.

foul tip

Sports; Baseball

This happens when a batted ball is tipped sharply backward and goes directly from the bat to the catcher's hands and is legally caught. It is not a foul tip unless caught and any foul tip that is ...

foul territory

Sports; Baseball

This is that part of the playing field outside the first and third base lines extended to the outfield fence and perpendicularly upwards.

foul pole

Sports; Baseball

There are two foul poles and they are at the very end of the foul line in left and right field and they help the umpires see whether a ball is hit fair or foul.

frozen rope

Sports; Baseball

A ball hit very low and hard so it has very little arc on it. But the ball is usually hit into the outfield also called a line drive.

gap

Sports; Baseball

This is the area between the outfielders. When a ball is hit into the Gap it usually goes all the way to the fence and results in the batter getting an extra base hit. (See extra base hit)

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