Rules of Major League Baseball
* An offensive player or “hitter” attempts to score a run by hitting the ball and touching all four bases in a counter-clockwise order before returning to home-plate.
* If the batter is hit by the pitched ball, he wins the right to run which is called a “walk”.
* If the hitter fails to hit the ball, the catcher returns it to the pitcher.
* If the batter hits a ball so that it goes out of the play-field or fails to hit it at all, it is called a “strike”.
* If the ball goes beyond the boundary of the out field, it is called a “home-run” wherein all the offensive players can score a run.
* When a batter is making a tour of the bases, he is called a “runner” and is said to be “safe” when he reaches a base.
Number of Ways a Player Gets Out in Baseball Sports
Defensive players in baseball game can render an offensive player out in one of the following ways: Strikeout: Strike out in major league baseball occurs when the batter acquires three strikes before hitting the ball and never becomes the runner.
Ground out: when the batter hits the ball but a defensive player retrieves it after it has touched the ground and throws it to another defensive player standing on first base before the runner arrives there.
Force-out: when a runner is required to run to advance bases ahead of a teammate's hit but fails to reach it before a defensive player reaches the base with the ball.
Fly out: if a defensive player catches a hit ball before it touches the ground, the runner is declared out, wherever he may be.
Tag out: Between bases, if a runner is touched by the ball held by a defensive player, he is put out.* An offensive player or “hitter” attempts to score a run by hitting the ball and touching all four bases in a counter-clockwise order before returning to home-plate.
* If the batter is hit by the pitched ball, he wins the right to run which is called a “walk”.
* If the hitter fails to hit the ball, the catcher returns it to the pitcher.
* If the batter hits a ball so that it goes out of the play-field or fails to hit it at all, it is called a “strike”.
* If the ball goes beyond the boundary of the out field, it is called a “home-run” wherein all the offensive players can score a run.
* When a batter is making a tour of the bases, he is called a “runner” and is said to be “safe” when he reaches a base.
Number of Ways a Player Gets Out in Baseball Sports
Defensive players in baseball game can render an offensive player out in one of the following ways: Strikeout: Strike out in major league baseball occurs when the batter acquires three strikes before hitting the ball and never becomes the runner.
Ground out: when the batter hits the ball but a defensive player retrieves it after it has touched the ground and throws it to another defensive player standing on first base before the runner arrives there.
Force-out: when a runner is required to run to advance bases ahead of a teammate's hit but fails to reach it before a defensive player reaches the base with the ball.
Fly out: if a defensive player catches a hit ball before it touches the ground, the runner is declared out, wherever he may be.
1 - Pitcher; 2 - Catcher; 3 - 1st Base; 4 - 2nd Base; 5 - 3rd Base; 6 - Shortstop; 7 - Left Field; 8 - Center Field; 9 - Right Field
Major League Baseball Scorekeeping
Major league baseball scoring is done for one batter at a time. Each cell in the game card contains a lifetime record of an offensive player (batter or runner). Different connotations are made for outs, reaching base, advancing, scoring a run, end of an innings, substitution etc.
Outs in Major League Baseball
* If a batter hits the ball to the shortstop, who throws the ball to the first baseman to force the first out, it is noted on the score sheet as 6-3, with 6 for shortstop and 3 for the first baseman and number 1 circled below the diamond.
* If a batter hits a ball directly to a fielder who catches it (on the fly), it is noted as F followed by the fielder who catches it on the fly and with a circled number indicating whether first, second or third batsmen is out.
* If a batter is strikes out, it is denoted as K. K is a standard notation for strike out.
* If the batter fails to swing at the third strike, a "backward K" is used.
* A slash drawn at lower right corner denotes end of an innings.
* If a base runner or batter is caught stealing a base midway between the two bases, the base path between those two bases is filled halfway and then ended with a short stroke perpendicular to the base path. It is noted as CS (caught stealing) followed by two numbers (e.g. 2-6), 2 denoting second base and 6 denoting catcher.
Reaching Base in Major League Baseball 2008
* If a batter reaches first base, either due to a walk or a hit, the base path from the home plate to first base is drawn, and the method by which the player reaches the base is described in lower right hand corner.
* If a batter gets a base hit, 1B is written at lower right hand corner.
* If a batter gets a walk, BB is written.
* If the batter reaches base because of a dropped throw, the base path is drawn and E3 is written below.
* If the batter moves from home directly to third base, i.e., base paths from home to first, first to second and second to third, 3B is written on upper left hand corner to indicate the runner did not advance on another hit.
Advancing in Baseball Game
If a runner advances a following batter, it is denoted by the batting position or the uniform number of the batter that advanced the runner. Runs scored in major league baseball 2008
* A runner must touch all 4 bases and cross all four base paths in order to score a run.
* On completion, the Scorer draws a complete diamond and fills it in.
* By filling it in, it's easier keep tracking the runs scored.
Ending an innings in baseball Sports A slash is drawn diagonally across the lower right corner of the cell of the third out. When three players from the offensive team are put-out.
