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2. Batting order (baseball) - Wikipedia

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   The batting order is the main component of a team's offensive strategy. In Major League Baseball, the batting order is set by the manager, who before the game begins must present the home plate umpire with two copies of his team's lineup card, a card on which a team's starting batting order is recorded. The home plate umpire keeps one copy of ...

3. Batting (baseball) - Wikipedia

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   The lineup or batting order is a list of the nine baseball players for a team in the order they will bat. During the game, the only way to change the lineup is via substitution, as batting out of turn is not allowed. Once the ninth person in the lineup finishes batting, the first person bats again; this is the top of the order.

4. Cleanup hitter - Wikipedia

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   Each individual hitter's strengths and weaknesses determine their spot on the daily lineup card. As the number four hitter's primary responsibility is to turn base runners into runs, a hitter with a high slugging percentage and batting average, especially with runners in scoring position, is generally preferred to the higher on-base percentage (OBP) and low strikeout rates of hitters earlier ...

5. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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   Batting average (BA) is the average number of hits per at-bat (BA=H/AB). A perfect batting average would be 1.000 (read: "one thousand"). A batting average of .300 ("three hundred") is considered to be excellent, which means the best hitters fail to get a hit in 70% of their at-bats.

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   Consider this your cheat sheet to a championship. [ Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Baseball league for the 2024 MLB season ] How to play Fantasy Baseball in 2024 ⚾️

7. Batting out of turn - Wikipedia

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   If batting out of turn is appealed, the entire play is nullified under Official Baseball Rule 6.03(b) and MiLB Umpire Manual 4.3. Any runners who advanced on the play would be returned to the base they occupied at the time of the pitch. However, an advance on a stolen base or wild pitch is not a result of the batter's illegal action, and would ...

8. What is ABS? Explaining MLB spring training challenge system

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   Detroit Tigers pitcher Beau Brieske throws at batting practice during spring training at Joker Marchant Stadium. MLB News: Justin Verlander wants 300 wins and some MLB rule changes so he won't be ...

9. Plate appearance - Wikipedia

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   A batter is not credited with a plate appearance if, while batting, a preceding runner is put out on the basepaths for the third out in a way other than by the batter putting the ball into play (i.e., picked off, caught stealing). In this case, the same batter continues his turn batting in the next inning with no balls or strikes against him.