General Rules of Baseball
Baseball is a game played by two teams of nine players each. The goal of the game is to score more runs than your opponent, and it can be exciting for both new and experienced players alike. There are many ways that you can learn how to play baseball, but this article will focus on explaining the basics in simple terms so you know what’s going on when you’re at the ballpark.
Batting, Fielding & Play Area
baseball is played between two teams one team would be batting at the time
-There are two teams of nine players each.
-The goal is to score more runs than the other team by getting around all four bases in order and making it home before being tagged out or thrown out.
-A player on the batting team takes a turn at bat, hitting balls towards an area defended by members of the fielding team (usually located between second base and third base). The fielding side tries to catch hit balls, while the batting side tries to prevent hits from happening with their defense. If they’re successful, then one run will be scored for that side; if not, then no runners may advance due to either getting caught trying to steal a base or because there were too many errors committed during play.
Objective of Game
The basic purpose of baseball is pitcher throws the ball, batsman hits the ball in the playing area and then batsman runs around the bases and scores a point.
The pitcher starts off with their foot on a rubber, which is located near home plate at one end of the playing area. The batter stands in front of an aluminum bat (wooden bats are used in some amateur games) near home plate; they swing it back between their legs to get ready for the pitch. When both players are prepared, the umpire says “Play Ball!”. Now that you know how baseball works, you’ll be able to enjoy your next game even more!
Pitcher, Hitter & Catcher
You have a pitcher in the batter and catcher and the umpire pitcher is objective is to throw the ball to the catcher and batter need to hit it and then the batter has to reach base before being out
Rule #1: The pitcher throws a ball from their hands, which is called “a pitch.” When throwing the ball, they must keep one foot on either side of home plate. There are many different kinds of pitches that vary in speed and movement. A pitcher also needs to throw with both arms for balance.
Rule #02: The catcher catches a pitched ball and tries to throw it back (or return) to the fielders or other hitter who’s waiting at another location somewhere else on the playing surface – this is how outs happen! They can catch balls thrown by anyone except pitchers, but if there’s been an illegal motion such as pitching without having one foot in the back of home plate, then they can’t catch a ball until after that player has paused for one moment.
Rule #03: The batter steps up to bat and tries their best to hit the pitched ball with their bat – this is how runs happen! There are many different kinds of bats which vary in weight and shape. They have two strikes against them; if they get “out” on three pitches (or whiff), it’s called an out. If there was a foul-tip off the bat or any other kind of interference from another game member not trying to play defense at all, then that counts as strike three too.
Rule #04: In general there are nine players per team on each side of the field. They are the pitcher, catcher, first baseman, second baseman, shortstop (or shortstop), third baseman and left fielder on one side; then from there it’s right fielder, center fielder and designated hitter (a player who doesn’t currently play defense).
Rule #05: The game is played in innings for a whole nine players at a time – usually with no more than three outs per inning when possible. The team batting tries to score runs by hitting the ball into fair territory where someone can catch it before they’re out or grounding them through a base so that another player reaches home safely.
Foul & Fair Ball
If a pitcher throws a ball and it touches (hits) the bat- then travels outside of playing area, that would be considered “Foul.” The knuckleballer may try to fool batters by throwing different pitches with unpredictable trajectories; as such, these are not covered by a set of “Foul” rules.
if the ball hits your bat and then it goes into fair that would be called fair so here you see the pitcher throws the ball, it touches (hits) the bat and travels inside playing area so that’s called a Fair.
Baseball Field
Making an Out
A batter is out when:
(1) His fair or foul fly ball (other than a foul tip) is
caught by a fielder
(2) A third strike is legally caught by the catcher.
(3) A third strike is not caught by the catcher when first base
is occupied before two are out.
(4) He bunts foul on third strike.
(5) An Infield Fly is declared.
(6) He attempts to hit a third strike and the ball touches him.
