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The 1845 Knickerbocker Rules, which laid the foundation for modern baseball, also included the concept of foul territory due to a need to adapt the game when there not enough players; [3] according to Thorn, even home runs were potentially considered foul in this set of rules, since losing the club's only ball in the nearby Hudson River would ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), Herman Long holds the record with 1,096 career errors; he played from 1889 to 1904. [3] Bill Dahlen, Deacon White, and Germany Smith are the only other players to commit at least 1,000 errors during their MLB careers. All of these players played at least one season before 1900.
In the wake of some serious injuries caused by foul balls in Major League Baseball (MLB) parks in the 2010s, including the first foul-ball spectator death at an MLB game in almost 50 years, [4] there have been calls for the rule to be re-examined or abolished altogether, as more spectators are struck by a foul ball than players in the game are ...
If the batter swings and makes contact with the ball, but does not put it in play in fair territory—a foul ball—he is charged with an additional strike if there are less than two. Thus, a foul ball with two strikes leaves the count unchanged. (However, a noted exception to this rule is that a ball bunted foul with two strikes is a strikeout.)
In baseball, a sacrifice fly (sometimes abbreviated to sac fly) is defined by Rule 9.08(d): [1] "Score a sacrifice fly when, before two are out, the batter hits a ball in flight handled by an outfielder or an infielder running in the outfield in fair or foul territory that is caught, and a run scores after the catch, or
If a batted ball hits the foul pole (orange pole on the right), the ball is fair, and a home run is awarded to the batter. A home run is most often scored when the ball is hit over the outfield wall between the foul poles (in fair territory) before it touches the ground (), and without being caught or deflected back onto the field by a fielder.
A ball knocked out of the field, or outside the range of the first and third base, is foul. In most (but not all) versions of early baseball or town-ball, as in rounders and cricket, there was no foul territory and every batted ball was "fair" no matter its direction.
The foul strike rule was a major rule change that, in just a few years, sent baseball from a high-scoring game to a game where scoring any runs was a struggle. Under the foul strike rule, a batter who fouls off is charged with a strike unless he already has two strikes against him. The National League adopted the foul strike rule in 1901, and ...