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The Visitor team starts the game in offense, with the Home team on defense. The goal of the offensive team is to have each of its players hit the ball and then run counterclockwise around all four bases in order without being eliminated by the defense, thus scoring one run for their team. The act of hitting takes place while a hitter is ...
To hit the ball hard, especially to hit a homer. "Utley banged the game-tying home run." Players who are banged up are injured, though may continue to play. Example: "Banged up Braves ready for playoff rematch with Astros." A bang-up game is an exciting or close game. Example from a sports headline: "A Real Bang-Up Finish."
Saves: games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either (a) the lead was three runs or less when the pitcher entered the game; (b) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck; or (c) the pitcher pitched three or more innings
APBA Baseball for Windows was a finalist for Computer Gaming World ' s Sports Game of the Year award, losing to Front Page Sports Football Pro. The editors wrote that despite new graphics "it is still the statistical model and replay accuracy of this new game, like its venerable ancestor, that command's everyone's attention".
Merkle's Boner refers to the notorious base-running mistake committed by rookie Fred Merkle of the New York Giants in a game against the Chicago Cubs on September 23, 1908. Merkle's failure to advance to second base on what should have been a game-winning hit led instead to a force play at second and a tied game.
Composite rules baseball–cricket – a hybrid bat-and-ball games combining elements of baseball and cricket, played by two teams of 12 players with the 9 inches (230 mm) diameter baseball on the oval-shaped field about 220 yards (200 m) long by 176 yards (161 m) wide, at the center of which is a baseball field about 92 feet (28 m) apart with ...
British baseball; Elle; Palant; Pesäpallo – four bases; Rounders – four bases or posts; Scrub baseball – four bases (not a team game per se) The Massachusetts Game – four bases; Town ball – variable; Cricket like. Bete-ombro; Cricket – two creases Backyard, Beach and Street cricket; Blind cricket; Club cricket; Deaf cricket; French ...
By 1851 the game of baseball was well-established enough that a newspaper report of a game played by a group of teamsters on Christmas Day referred to the game as "a good old-fashioned game of base ball", [40] and the 1858 report of the National Association of Base Ball Players declared that "The game of base-ball has long been a favorite and ...