5 minutes to teach you how to play baseball!
First, set up the venue
Place four bases on a flat ground: home base, first base, second base and third base; Among them, home plate is the shape of a special small house. Four bases form a square with a side length (base spacing) of 27.43 meters.
Connect home plate and first base, home plate and third base respectively, and extend them into two rays to form the sideline of baseball field. The ball falls within the fan-shaped inner boundary sandwiched by these two sideline lines.
Near home plate, draw the hitting box where the batter stands and the catcher’s box when the catcher catches the ball. A pitcher’s board is placed at the diagonal of the second base at home plate, 18.44 meters away from home plate.
Second, form a team
1. Arrange pitchers and catchers.
The pitcher stands in the center of the field, and when the attacker hits the ball, the pitcher throws the ball in the direction of home plate. When the batter misses the pitcher’s pitch, the catcher is responsible for catching the ball.
2. Arrange infielder.
The first baseman, the second baseman and the third baseman are responsible for defending the ball near the three bases; The shortstop helps defend the bases or the space between bases.
3. Arrange outfielders.
According to the area, it is divided into left fielder, center fielder and right fielder, and mainly defends the high-flying ball flying to the outfield or the ground ball passing through the infield defense line.
The pitcher, catcher, four infielders and three outfielders make up a baseball team.
Third, attack
The attacker sent a player to the batting box to hit the ball. The batter must keep an eye on the pitcher’s pitch and swing the ball out. All the attacking players take turns to hit the ball.
1. The batter didn’t hit the ball into bounds., there are generally three situations:
- The pitcher throws a bad ball, such as the ball is too high, too low or too wide, and the batter can not swing. The referee awarded a bad goal. Four batters can be walked to first base.
- If the batter didn’t swing (thought it was a bad ball but it was actually a good one), or the swing didn’t hit, the referee awarded a "good ball". Three good hitters were voted out.
- The batter hit the ball out of bounds and recorded "one strike". After two strikes, the out-of-bounds balls will not be accumulated.
2. When the batter hits the ball into bounds.Whether it’s a ground ball or a fly ball, he must put down the bat at once and run to first base with all his strength.
If he is not killed, he can choose to stay at first base according to the situation on the court, or continue to run to second base and third base. If he can run back to home plate, he will score a point for the team.
When the batter didn’t run to base:
- When the defender touches the batter with the ball, he is "kill by contact"Out.
- Or the batter’s ball is caught before landing, and he is "Catch and kill"Out.
- Because the batter must run to the first base, before he runs to the first base, the defender holds the ball and steps on the first base with his foot, and the batter is "ban；strangle；smother"Out.
If the batter hits the ball straight out of the outfield, he can run straight through four bases to score. This is called a home run.
Under normal circumstances, the batter only has the opportunity to run to one or two bases by hitting the ball himself; His further advance depends on the teammate who hits the ball behind him.
If the attacker is caught three times out, the offensive and defensive exchange. One attack and one defense are one game, and the team that scores more after playing nine games wins.
Fourth, defense
Baseball can only be scored when it is offensive. Therefore, the attacking team tries to avoid being caught out and score as many points as possible before three outs; And defense is to get three players out of the attack as soon as possible.
First of all, the pitcher’s pitching, he used fast ball, change ball and other means to make the batter miss the ball, causing him to strike out three times.
If the ball is hit, the defender can catch the ball directly through reasonable standing and running, and then kill the batter out; Or after receiving the ball, pass it to a teammate near base runner, and let him perform the task of touching and killing or blocking.
Sometimes, if there are other base runner on the base, a ball can knock out several attackers at the same time.
Whether attacking or defending, baseball places special emphasis on teamwork. Baseball does not rely on fighting, but on the efficiency of both offensive and defensive sides to complete their work, so what has not been touched cannot be understood intuitively. But as long as you have watched a baseball game or experienced it once, you will know that it is an easy sport to learn.