Baseball
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American cultural icons: Apple pie, baseball, and the American flag © USDA ARS – Scott Bauer
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Baseball is a
bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns
batting and fielding (
Baseball rules ). The batting team attempts to score
runs by hitting a
ball that is thrown by the
pitcher with a
bat swung by the batter, then running counter-clockwise around a series of four
bases : first, second, third, and home plate. A run is scored when a player
advances around the bases and returns to home plate (
Baseball positions ).
Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team , which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates’ turns batting, such as on a hit or by other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn batting for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning . A game is composed of nine innings, and the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins. Baseball has no game clock, although almost all games end in the ninth inning.
American cultural icons: Apple pie, baseball, and the American flag © USDA ARS - Scott Bauer
Baseball evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in England by the mid-18th century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America,
where the modern version developed . By the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the
national sport of the United States. Baseball is currently popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, particularly
Japan .
In the United States and Canada, professional
Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the
National League (NL) and
American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central. The major league champion is determined by
playoffs that culminate in the
World Series . The top level of play is similarly split in Japan between the
Central and
Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the
West League and East League .
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