04 Baseball / Betfair Education / 18 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Each team has nine players and starts the game with a designated pitcher. Other players specialise in specific departments such as short stop, first base etc. Traditionally everyone in the team bats, however in the American League each team also has a tenth player, a designated hitter who bats instead of the pitcher - a peculiarity that has remained since the AL initiated the concept in 1973.

A game consists of nine innings for each team. The aim of the game is to outscore your opponents. To score a batter must run around all the bases returning to home base without being 'out'. There are many ways of being out such as strike out, caught, tagged etc.

Rules and Regulations of the game can be found at: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/foreword.jsp.