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Pitcher and Batter Roles in Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams where the offensive team tries to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher and running around four bases, while the defensive team tries to get players out to prevent runs; players are out if hit by a pitched or batted ball, if a batted ball is caught, or if they miss a base; teams take turns batting and fielding over nine innings with the team scoring the most runs winning.

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Pitcher and Batter Roles in Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams where the offensive team tries to score runs by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher and running around four bases, while the defensive team tries to get players out to prevent runs; players are out if hit by a pitched or batted ball, if a batted ball is caught, or if they miss a base; teams take turns batting and fielding over nine innings with the team scoring the most runs winning.

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Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and

fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball
which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objectives of the offensive team
(batting team) are to hit the ball into the field of play, and to run the bases—having its runners
advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The objective of
the defensive team (fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent
runners' advance around the bases.[2] A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the
bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The
team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.
The first objective of the batting team is to have a player reach first base safely. A player on the
batting team who reaches first base without being called "out" can attempt to advance to
subsequent bases as a runner, either immediately or during teammates' turns batting. The
fielding team tries to prevent runs by getting batters or runners "out", which forces them out of
the field of play. Both the pitcher and fielders have methods of getting the batting team's players
out. The opposing teams switch back and forth between batting and fielding; the batting team's
turn to bat is over once the fielding team records three outs. One turn batting for each team
constitutes an inning. A game is usually composed of nine innings, and the team with the greater
number of runs at the end of the game wins. If scores are tied at the end of nine innings, extra
innings are usually played. Baseball has no game clock, although most games end in the ninth
inning.
 

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