

Evolving from older bat- and- ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid- eighteenth century. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins. One turn at bat - 3 outs - for each team constitutes an inning nine innings make up a professional game. Search metadata Search full text of books Search TV captions Search archived web sites Advanced Search.The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways.

The goal 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 ninety- foot square, or diamond. Baseball is a bat- and- ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. Horse racing Ice hockey Karate Olympics Racing Motorsport Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each.
