Baseball

Baseball

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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team

Sports; Baseball

A baseball team must have least 9 players. Of course professional baseball teams have many more the nine players.

throw

Sports; Baseball

Propelling the ball with the hand and arm to a chosen objective and should always be distinguished from a pitch.

tie game

Sports; Baseball

This is a regulation game that is stopped when each team has the same number of runs. Does not happen in baseball, they play until someone wins.

time

Sports; Baseball

This is really a time out, and is a statement by an umpire of a legal interruption of play, during which the ball is dead.

touch

Sports; Baseball

To touch a player or umpire is to touch any part of his body, his clothing or his equipment. If a player or coach touches an umpire, during an argument for example, he will be thrown out of the game. ...