Baseball

Rule

sEach team has 9 players plus

substitutes.

The only ways you can be out is by being caught, tagged, struck out or

out on a base.

The term “three out, all out!” means that 3 batters are out and

the teams must swap places.

If a game is tied at the end of the 9th innings, one innings at a time is played until one team gets ahead.

BaseballPitching

The Grip

1st and 2nd fingers

slightly apart

Place across any seam /

stitchingPlace thumb

directly underneath

finger

Pitching

Take a little starter step with the same foot as your throwing arm.

Drop throwing arm next to hip.

Take throwing arm back straight.

Step forward with foot opposite to throwing arm.

Bring throwing arm forward towards target.

Bring ball forward along side of head.

Strike Zone

Is the area

over the plate and

between knees &

armpits of the batter

It is a strike when

the batter swings at a ball outside

the strike zone

the batter doesn’t swing at a ball in the

strike zone

A pitch outside the strike zone is called a

‘ball’If the

pitcher pitches 4

balls at you, you may

walk to first base.

BaseballFielding

Basic elements

of catching

Get in line with the flight

of the ball

Watch the ball into the

mitt

Absorb force by “giving”

with the ball

Use the palm of the glove.

Catching

Above the waist

Fingers up

Palms up

Below the waist

Fingers down

Palms down

OutfieldStay a long way back because it is quicker & easier to run in

than to backpedal.

Groundballs

Feet apart

Bend knees

Elbows inside your

knees

BaseballBatting

The

Swin

g

Relaxed grip

Arms away from body

Position yourself so swing goes over plate

Keep eyes on the ball

Swing flat.

Hitting Zone

If the batter swings and

misses on strike three and the

catcher catches the ballthen

batter is out

catcher drops the ballthen

batter runs to 1st base before he is out on base if

Hitting Zone

Right – handed batter

hitting zone is on the left hand

side.

Left – handed batter

hitting zone is on the right hand

side.

Foul

Bal

lsA foul ball is hit outside the line between home

and 1st or 3rd base.

The only way to go out on a foul is to be caught.

The 1st and 2nd foul is always a strike in baseball

but is never a 3rd strike

Base Runners

When a fly ball is caught

Hitter is out

all base runners must run back to their original base before they are out on a

base

leads to a possible double or triple playExample

hitter is caught and one/two base runners are played out

Base runners can overrun 1st base only.

If a base runner is forced to run he can be out on a base

or tagged.

Base runners cannot steal bases on a foul ball.