How a baseball game is played?
? ? At the beginning of the baseball game, the pitcher who is in the middle of the infield, will stand on the mound with the ball and push off the rubber. When the pitcher throws the ball towards the home plate, which is called pitch, a baseball game starts. At this point, the batter will decide in a fraction of a second to swing or not, which would be ended by a hit or a miss. If the batter does not swing, the pitch would be called a “ball” or a “strike”. The home plate is the main concept behind “balls” and “strikes”, because baseball game does not have a clock. Thus created a strike zone, an areas right above the home plate which extends from right behind the knee cap up to between the batter’ belt and shoulder with 70 inches wide. When the batter does not swing, the pitch passed through the strike zone it would be called a “strike”, the pitch does not pass the zone it would be called a “ball”. “Strike” and “ball” are to be called by the home plate umpire, who are usually crouching down behind the catcher. A strike is also called by the umpire when the batter swings and misses or when the batter hits the ball but it goes foul. Everything outside the foul lines that right down the first to third base line is considered to be foul territory.
? The “balls” and “strikes” make the baseball game moving by added up in the count. Three “strikes” is a strikeout and four “balls” is a walk.
? The count starts at 0-0, if the first pitch is a ball, then the count would move to 1-0. If it is a strike, the count would be 0-1. Until the count is 3-2, it is a full count because the next step would be a walk or a strikeout or another pitch when the next pitch is a foul ball. The full count is in other words a good opportunity to end this game.
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