Let’s face it, if your not an avid baseball fan, you don’t know about all of the intricacies of a baseball game which could poison you into thinking that baseball is boring. The game features all kinds of mini strategies like the signs the catcher throws before a pitch, if the runner on 1st is [...]

 No pitcher can be successful throwing the same pitch in the same place over and over.  Pitchers need to attack different parts of the strike zone, change speeds and change location to keep hitter’s guessing about where the next pitch will be. Fastballs A fastball down the middle is usually not a good pitch.  Pitchers [...]

Regular Season The Major League Baseball season runs from the start of April to the end of September, with each club playing 162 games. That means about one day off every ten days, so baseball is pretty much “game-a-day”. Teams normally play “series” of three (occasionally four) games on consecutive days against the same opponent, [...]

Major League Baseball teams will normally carry eleven or twelve pitchers on their roster (eleven pitchers, and thirteen “position players” are considered the minimum, with the twenty fifth position normally being down to managerial preference). The pitchers can normally be divided into three distinct roles:- the starting rotation, the middle-relief and the late-innings relievers. The [...]

  Scoring Runs One of the fielding players, known as a “pitcher” stands on the pitching mound and throws the ball to the hitter who stands at home plate. The hitter tries to put the ball into play by hitting it inside the foul lines (the ball must go in front of first or third [...]