Baseball

Baseball, also called baseball or baseball, 2 is a team sport played between two sets of nine players each.

It is considered one of the most popular sports in Australia, Canada, Colombia, South Korea, Cuba, the United States, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, the Netherlands, Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, Taiwan, and Venezuela. The countries considered powerhouses of this sport are concentrated in America (North, Central, Caribbean) and Asia, with the European and African continents lagging behind. [Required appointment] However, Europe has two good exponents (Netherlands and Italy ); and in Africa it is worth highlighting the South African team.

It is played on an extensive field completely covered by natural or artificial grass, with the exception of the area called the runner line, where the offensive players run to reach the bases (located at the corners of the quadrangular area called diamond) and score, thus as the pitcher's area (where the terrain is a knoll of dirt).

The objective of the game is to hit a ball with a bat (bat), moving the ball across the field and run through the internal field of land (infield) seeking to reach as many bases as possible until turning around the base from where batted (home) and score both known as the run, while the defensive players look for the batted ball to eliminate the player who hit the ball or other runners, before they first reach any of the bases or manage to score the run ( see Rules for more game details).

The team that scores the most runs after the nine (9) episodes, called innings (or innings) that the match lasts, is the winner. If at the end of the nine regular innings a matched marker persists in races, the match is extended as long as there is to be a winner, according to the basic rules of the game there is no tie, allowed only in amateur and children's leagues to limit wear of the players.

Unlike other sports that are played with ball, such as soccer, which is also known as football, or basketball also known as basketball; Although "baseball" could be translated into Spanish, the custom of using its English root form is due to the sensation of a phonetically strange name: the translation would have to be pelotabase or bolabase, although in some Spanish-speaking countries it is he is used to colloquially denominate it as the ball game or simply ball. [appointment required]

On the other hand, one of the characteristics that differentiates baseball from other team sports is that in it the defense is the one that has the ball, apart from the annotations being determined by the offensive team players and not the ball.