Baseball is a game that is believed to have arrived to the United States through immigrants from Britain and Ireland. The baseball game, according to popular belief, has originated in the Ireland few centuries back. Baseball is a game played between two teams. The batting team bats and the fielding team catches and tries to get the players of the batting team ‘out’ of the game. However, the team that scores the maximum number of ‘runs’ will win the game. Hence, the goal of the game is scoring more points than the rival team and in the language of baseball; points are referred to as ‘runs’.

When they are batting, the nine members of each team will attempt to score runs by running through all the bases in the square shaped field, the ‘diamond’. This running through bases is known as a ‘tour’. Starting from the home plate, a player will tour counter clockwise, until he arrives back to the home plate.

Looking at how the baseball game is played, one should first know the basic tools of baseball or in other words – the baseball equipment. The tools are the bat, the ball, the mitt and the field.

The bat is an offensive tool made of wood or aluminium, is long and hard and has a diameter of about 5 centimetres with a handle of smaller diameter (about 1 inch).

The fist sized white colored, red laced spherical object used in baseball is called the ball.

The mitt which is also known as gloves is worn as defensive baseball equipment and it is made of leather. Wearing the mitt helps in catching the ball. The shape of the mitt however is not definite, as it changes according to the needs of the defending position of the player.

The baseball field has a diamond shape and depending on the age of the players, its dimensions may vary.

Baseball has a series of innings when it is played. Each inning will be divided into two. At the beginning of each half-inning of the baseball match, the nine defensive players will arrange themselves on the field. One defensive player will stand at a designated spot in the centre which is known as the mound whilst the defensive player known as the catcher will stand at the other side of the pitcher’s side of the home plate.

When the batter holding a bat stands at the home plate, and hits the ball that was thrown at him; the game begins and the batter will start running towards the first base. Meanwhile, any runners who are already on the base will try to run to other additional bases. By this time, the catcher should catch the ball and return them to the pitcher.

These are the basic concepts behind one of the most popular games in the United States – Baseball.

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