may some one please tell me the rules of baseball, also some of the vocabulary used (w/ its meaning)?

Question

thanks a lot!!!!

Answer 1

Impossible to do it in a paragraph. There are a lot of rules. Just watch some games. You will pick it up.

Answer 2

The object of baseball is to score more runs than your opponent. This is done by getting a singular runner to touch all four bases. This is done when a player comes up to the plate, or at-bat. he gets on base by hitting a ball thrown by a pitcher to a spot where his ball is not caught before it hits the ground, or goes over the outfield wall in fair territory, or it hits the ground and a fielder catches the ball and throws to the base the runner is trying to reach before the runner reaches that base. Fair territory is the area between the white lines that leads to the foul poles. A player at bat can also be reached by receiving four balls before he receives three strikes - foul balls are strikes, but a batter can not receive his third strike fouling off a ball unless it was a foul tip into the catchers mitt (a glove made exclusively for catchers).
The catcher is the person that the pitcher throws to, the pitcher does the most amount of work during a baseball game and the camera is often on him. The catcher squats just in back of where the hitter is attempting to hit the ball.
There are seven other fielders on defense - one for each base besides home plate (which the catcher normally covers). Third base has a thirdbaseman, it is located on the left side of the baseball diamond, the infield area from home, to first, to second, to third and back to homeplate again). There is the second baseman, who covers the rightside of second base, the base located in the middle of the baseball diamond opposite of home plate, the person on the left side of second base is the shortstop, There is a first baseman who covers firstbase on the right side of the diamond. There are three outfielders, left, center, and right, that play further away from the diamond, or infield usually aligned with the bases, left field is in back of thirdbase, right field is in back of firstbase, and center field is in back of second base.

This is way too long to do. These are the basics.

Answer 3

Baseball is a very complicated and strategic sport. I've been watching it my whole life and even I don't get all its subtleties. But that's one reason why a lot of people think it's "boring" - they don't have any idea what's really going on.

The Basics:

There are nine players on each side and nine innings to a game. Each inning has a beginning ("The Top of the Inning") where the visiting team goes "up to the plate" one at a time and "bats" (offense) and a "Bottom," where the home team bats. You can only score when your team is "at bat."

If the two teams are tied at the end of nine innings, they go into "extra innings" (as overtime is called.) If the home team is ahead after the top of the ninth inning or any inning past that, they automatically win and the game is over. Since the visiting team bats first though, they have to give the home team a chance to score before they can be declared the victors if they are ahead.

The field is arranged with an infield (which is the diamond-shaped section encompassing home plate, the pitcher's mound, and the three bases) and an outfield (the grassy area past the bases.) The batter's goal is to stand at home plate and hit the ball far enough to get around as many bases as possible. He gets three "strikes" (or hittable balls thrown to an area known as "the strike zone" from the pitcher - see below) to do it. If he doesn't attempt to hit three fair balls or if he swings and misses at three or if one of the defensive players catches his ball or is able to throw it to the base he's running for before he gets there, he is "out." (You've heard of "three strikes and you're out" right?) If the pitcher throws four bad pitches (or "balls") the batter "walks" to first base even though he didn't get a hit. Batters can also get a free trip to first base if they are hit by a pitch or for several other much-rarer reasons. Each team gets three "outs" per inning.

The ultimate goal is to go around all three bases in sequence and come back to home plate to score. (That's known as a "run." If a batter puts the ball over the fence, it's a "home run" and he and all the batters who were "on base" ahead of him score. The maximum number of points someone can score at a time is four. All three bases have to be "loaded" with "runners" when someone hits a home run for that to happen and its known as a "grand slam.")

When a team is playing defense, there are nine players out on the field: the first baseman (who guards first base), the second baseman, the third baseman, the shortstop (who hovers between second and third base), three "outfielders", a pitcher and a catcher. The pitcher is the one throwing balls at the hitter. The catcher (aptly named) squats behind home plate and catches his balls if the hitter misses them. Through signals, the catcher tells the pitcher what "ball" to pitch. (There are "fastballs," "curveballs," "sliders,"... any number of ways a pitcher can throw the ball.) The catcher also can see the infield, while the pitcher is turned away from it, so he is sometimes able to "throw out" a base runner from the other team when they attempt to "steal" a base (by advancing to the next one while the pitcher is distracted by the next batter.)

But, as I said, these are only the VERY basics. Strategy comes into play in almost every situation. Should a pitcher throw a pitch that's deliberately "out of the strike zone," but may not look like it is from the hitter's perspective, to get him to swing and strike out? Should a runner go for an extra base or stay safe on first? There are any number of possibilities in each and every game.

Answer 4

YOU HAVE A BATTERS BOX AT THE HOME PLATE. YOU HAVE TO BE IN WHEN THE BALL GET THROWN.
YOU GET 3 OUTS IN A INNING. PLAY 9 INNING IN A GAME.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball

Answer 6

You can find it all right here:

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/official_info/official_rules/foreword.jsp

Answer 7

Which rule? ...Which lingo? more info needed.