Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between
two teams of nine players each. 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. 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. A player on
the batting team can stop at any of the bases and
later advance via a teammate's hit or other means.
The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever
the fielding team records three outs. One turn at
bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine
innings make up a professional game. The team with
the most runs at the end of the game wins...