baseball. rules each team has 9 players plus substitutes. the only ways you can be out is by being...
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Baseball
Rule
sEach team has 9 players plus
substitutes.
The only ways you can be out is by being caught, tagged, struck out or
out on a base.
The term “three out, all out!” means that 3 batters are out and
the teams must swap places.
If a game is tied at the end of the 9th innings, one innings at a time is played until one team gets ahead.
BaseballPitching
The Grip
1st and 2nd fingers
slightly apart
Place across any seam /
stitchingPlace thumb
directly underneath
finger
Pitching
Take a little starter step with the same foot as your throwing arm.
Drop throwing arm next to hip.
Take throwing arm back straight.
Step forward with foot opposite to throwing arm.
Bring throwing arm forward towards target.
Bring ball forward along side of head.
Strike Zone
Is the area
over the plate and
between knees &
armpits of the batter
It is a strike when
the batter swings at a ball outside
the strike zone
the batter doesn’t swing at a ball in the
strike zone
A pitch outside the strike zone is called a
‘ball’If the
pitcher pitches 4
balls at you, you may
walk to first base.
BaseballFielding
Basic elements
of catching
Get in line with the flight
of the ball
Watch the ball into the
mitt
Absorb force by “giving”
with the ball
Use the palm of the glove.
Catching
Above the waist
Fingers up
Palms up
Below the waist
Fingers down
Palms down
OutfieldStay a long way back because it is quicker & easier to run in
than to backpedal.
Groundballs
Feet apart
Bend knees
Elbows inside your
knees
BaseballBatting
The
Swin
g
Relaxed grip
Arms away from body
Position yourself so swing goes over plate
Keep eyes on the ball
Swing flat.
Hitting Zone
If the batter swings and
misses on strike three and the
catcher catches the ballthen
batter is out
catcher drops the ballthen
batter runs to 1st base before he is out on base if
Hitting Zone
Right – handed batter
hitting zone is on the left hand
side.
Left – handed batter
hitting zone is on the right hand
side.
Foul
Bal
lsA foul ball is hit outside the line between home
and 1st or 3rd base.
The only way to go out on a foul is to be caught.
The 1st and 2nd foul is always a strike in baseball
but is never a 3rd strike
Base Runners
When a fly ball is caught
Hitter is out
all base runners must run back to their original base before they are out on a
base
leads to a possible double or triple playExample
hitter is caught and one/two base runners are played out
Base runners can overrun 1st base only.
If a base runner is forced to run he can be out on a base
or tagged.
Base runners cannot steal bases on a foul ball.