Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players who take turns batting and fielding.

The offense attempts to score more runs than its opponents by hitting a ball thrown by the pitcher with a bat and moving counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third and home plate. A run is scored when the runner advances around the bases and returns to home plate.

Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance on a teammate’s hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning, and nine innings a game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins

Playing Surface Measurement:

• Home plate to pitcher’s box: 60 feet 6 inches (18.4 metres)
• Plate to second base: 127 feet 3 3/8 inches (38.8 metres)
• Distance from base to base (home plate included): 90 feet (27.4 metres)
• Size of bases: 15 inches by 15 inches (38.1cm by 38.1cm)
• Pitcher’s plate: 24 inches by 6 inches (61cm by 15.24cm)
• Batter’s box: 4 feet by 6 feet (1.2 metres by 1.8 metres)
• Home plate: Five-sided, 17 inches by 8 ½ inches by 8 ½ inches by 12 inches by 12 inches, cut to a point at rear (Five-Sided, 43.18cm by 21.59cm by 21.59cm by 30.48cm by 30.48cm cut to a point at rear)
• Home plate to backstop: Not less than 60 feet recommended (not less than 18.3 metres)