| Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport
played between two teams of nine players each. The goal of baseball is
to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a
series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a
ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the
offense) take turns hitting while the other team (the defense)
tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in
any of several ways. A player on offense can stop at any of the bases
and hope to score on a teammate's hit. The teams switch between offense
and defense whenever the team on defense gets three outs. One turn on
offense for each team constitutes an inning; nine innings make up
a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game
wins. |