• Baseball is a bat and ball sport played by two teams and it is usually of nine players each.
• Players on one team take the turns into hitting them while the other team members tried to stop the running scores.
• The goal of a game is scoring more and more points which is called the runs.

Equipments

The Dimension of the Field

The Baseball Diamond

• Infield is a 90-foot square
• Outfield is the space between the two foul poles/lines

Home Plate

• A 17 x 17 inch plate that sets at the center of a 26-foot diameter, making up the home plate area
• Starting from home plate, foul lines must extend at least 325 feet to where a pole marker stands.

Bases

• 90 feet apart
• 15-inch square
• 13-foot surrounding arcs

Batter's Box

• 4ft x 6ft
• 6 inches from home plate

Umpire Box

• 43 inches by 8 feet

Pitcher's Mound

• First of all, a pitcher's mound, which is a 24 -by-6 inch pitching rubber, lies at the center of every baseball diamond. This mound, which has a diameter of 18 feet, must be 10-and-a-half inches above the height of home plate. Home plate is 60 feet, 6 inches away.

The Ball

• The baseball is around 9 inches (23 centimeters) in circumference. It has a rubber or cork center, wound in yarn and covered in white cowhide, with red stitching.

The Bat

• The bat is about 2.5 inches (6.4 centimeters) in diameter at the hitting end, tapering to a narrower handle and culminating in a knob.
• Bats are around 34 inches (86 centimeters) long, and not longer than 42 inches (106 centimeters).

Rules of play

A pitcher cannot pitch until:

• a minimum of three days have passed since he last pitched, if he threw 50 or more pitches when he last pitched
• a minimum of one day has passed since he last pitched, if he threw 30 or more pitches when he last pitched
• a minimum of one day has passed since any second consecutive day on which the pitcher pitched

A pitcher cannot pitch more than

• 70 pitches per game in Round One of the tournament
• 85 pitches per game in Round Two of the tournament
• 100 pitches per game in the Semifinals and Final of the tournament

A pitcher can still finish a batter's plate appearance even if the limit is reached, but must come out after completing the plate appearance
A game will be a called game if the leading team is ahead by

• 10 or more runs when the opposing team has batted in at least seven innings
• 15 or more runs when the opposing team has batted in at least five innings

Player's Arrangement

• Eight position players-catcher, four infielders, three outfielders-who play on a regular basis
• Five starting pitchers who constitute the team's pitching rotation or starting rotation
• Six relief pitchers, including one specialist closer, who constitute the team's bull pin
• One backup, or substitute, catcher
• Two backup infielders
• Two backup outfielders
• One specialist pinch hitter

Kinds of Out

• The strikeout when a batter makes three strikes before putting the ball into play or being awarded a free advance to first base.
• The fly out when a batter who hits a ball in the air that is caught by a fielder, whether in fair territory or foul territory, before it lands, whether or not the batter has run.
• The ground out when a ball that lands in fair territory which, before the batter-runner can reach first base, is retrieved by a fielder who touches first base while holding the ball or relays it to another fielder who touches first base while holding the ball.
• The force out when a runner who is required to attempt to advance either because the runner is on first base and a batted ball lands in fair territory but fails to reach the next base before a fielder touches the base while holding the ball.
• The tag out when a runner who is touched by a fielder with the ball or a glove holding the ball, while the runner is not touching a base.

Match Official

• Umpires (4 to 6)
• Scorer

Major Tournaments

• Baseball World Cup
• Women's Baseball World Cup
• Intercontinental Cup
• World Port Tournament
• Baseball at the Summer Olympics
• World University Baseball Championship
• World Cup

Governing Body

International Baseball Federation (IBAF)

Sister sports

• Bran boll
• British baseball
• Lapta
• Oina