ALL Baseball Rules Explained in 11 Minutes – Finally Understand the Game

To pass the time, two people are playing with the ball. One throws, the other catches. No, that's too monotonous. They need someone else. So, they call in third guy to mess things up. The third guy holding bat tries to intercept the ball. As soon as the ball is served, he swings and hits it. and the ones throwing and catching have to somehow prevent him from hitting the ball and thus complete the pitch. That's how the rivalry begins. But if the ball flies far away, someone still has to go pick it up. So they call in few more people to retrieve the balls, but the game still looks bit boring. Then they add more variety. For example, after the ball is hit, the batter takes off running at full speed, trying to see if he can make it around this square road and back to the starting point before the ball is retrieved. If he manages to get back to the starting spot, he gets one point. But that's already too complicated. Something simpler is needed. Now, after hitting the ball, he just has to reach these several points where he stops, but no point is scored yet. Obviously, the faster the fielders return the ball, the harder it is for the batter to cover the distance. That's why the batter tries to hit the ball as far as possible, preferably so that it can't be picked up anytime soon. Then, he'll have enough time to run the whole way. So everyone on the entire field is against the batter and the batter has to use his wheats and fight against bunch of opponents. In the end, they split everyone into two teams with different colored uniforms. From team only one batter is temporarily on the field. The rest of team A's players are outfield with team Team that is the player with the bat, is the attacking side. Team all wearing big gloves, is the defending side. The attacking side tries to score as many points as possible. The defending side does everything it can to stop the opponent from scoring points, and that's baseball game. The two teams take turns attacking and defending. game has nine periods called innings. Each inning is divided into two halves, the top and the bottom. In the top half, team attacks, team defends. In the bottom half is the opposite. Team attacks, team defends. The attacking side is responsible for hitting the ball and running the bases. Their goal is to score runs. The defending side handles pitching, catching, and throwing the ball, putting out the attacking players, and preventing the opponent from scoring. After nine innings, the team with more runs wins. If the score is tight, they play extra innings until there is winner. If the score difference is too large and one side has no chance, the game can be ended early. The playing field is sector. Imagine right angle. Inside the right angle is fair territory. Everything outside the right angle is foul territory. Please note fair territory extends infinitely. That arc is just foul line, not boundary. Even if the ball flies over the ark, as long as it stays inside the right angle, it's not foul. It's considered foul only if it goes too far left or right. There are four bases in total. This one is home. This is first, second, and third base. The batter stands at home plate. The pitcher stands on the spot called the pitcher mount. Each team has nine players, but at the start of each half inning, only one batter from the attacking team comes onto the field. The other eight wait outside. As soon as the batter hit the ball and starting from home runs to first base, he becomes runner. Then the second batter comes up. If he also safely reaches base, the third batter comes up. Since there are only four bases, the attacking team can have maximum of four players on the field at the same time. All nine defenders take the field together. These nine include the pitcher who throws the ball, the catcher who catches it, and seven outfielders. The outfielders are the players with their own specific duties. Mostly they are the ones who put runners out. Only one person can be on base at time. trailing runner cannot pass the runner ahead of him. If the batter hit the ball fair, he must start running to first base. From these three rules come the concept of force play. When the batter is running to first, the runner already on first is also forced to advance and run to second. That's force play. The batter is chased by nine defenders go clockwise successively taking first, second, third bases and finally back to home. That's how the attacking team scores one run. Baseball's rules are built around this core idea. and getting all the way home is pretty hard. Often the attacking players don't get far before being put out. For the defenders, it's enough to record three outs to end the half inning and switch sides. So, how do they put runners out? In other words, how do defenders eliminate attacking players? There are several main ways. First, the batter hit the ball. And if defender catches it in the air before it touches the ground, the batter is immediately out. This is called fly out. It doesn't matter where it was caught, fair or foul territory. The key is that it didn't touch the ground first. Second, defenders can throw the ball to each other. If defender holding the ball touches runner who hadn't reached the base, the runner is out. This is called attack out. Third, defender standing with foot on second base receives the ball. The runner who is forced to second because of force play is out. Then the ball is thrown to first base and the batter running to first is also put out. That's double play. Sometimes there is even triple play where three attacking players are put out at once. If the bases are empty and only the batter is running to first, it's enough to throw the ball to the defender on first to put the batter out. force out is used when player is required to run. Essentially, forced runner has nowhere to retreat. In situations where running isn't mandatory, runner can only be put out by tagging. Force. If the batter gets three strikes, he's out. Now, what is strike? This virtual yellow zone is called the strike zone. ball thrown by the pitcher that passes through this zone is strike. If it doesn't pass through, it's ball. But if the batter swings and misses or hit the ball foul, even if the pitch wasn't in the strike zone, it still counts as strike. The strike count goes up by one. However, when there are already two strikes, foul ball is neither strike nor ball. If the pitcher throws four balls, the batter automatically walks to first base. If someone is already on first, that player advances to second, and so on. So if first, second, and third are occupied. When the batter walks, the runner on the third calmly trots home and the attacking team scores run. The pitcher throw the ball at very high speed. Getting hit can hurt lot or even cause injury. Therefore, if the pitch hit the batter, it's hit by pitch. In that case, the batter also gets to go to first base. If the batter hits the ball and safely reaches the base, that's called hit. As the name suggests, heat is batted ball that allows safe arrival on base. Hits are classified as single, double, triple, and home run. home run is when the batter send the ball into the home run zone, after which he can safely circle all the bases and score run. If there were already runners on base, they can also reach home and score. As soon as the pitcher starts his delivery motion, runner can take off for the next base. If the batter didn't swing or missed, the catcher will throw the ball to the defender on the base to put the runner out. But note, if the batter hit the ball foul, stolen base attempt doesn't count. the runner has to go back. And if defender gets fly out and the batter is out, the runner must also return to his original base and retouch it before he can continue running. So if runner is sure the ball will be caught in the air, he stays on the base, waits for the catch, and only then runs. If he is not sure, he takes few steps off the base. If it's not fly out, the runner keeps going. If it is caught, he immediately returns to the base. The person standing behind the catcher is the home plate umpire who has ultimate authority. The catcher moving his hand gives clear signals. He tells the pitcher what type of pitch to throw. This video only covers few of the rules, but that's enough for you to fully enjoy the game. If anything is still unclear, save the video so you can rewatch it later. And thank you for watching. If you like this video, please hit like, write comment, and don't forget to subscribe to the channel. Thanks again and bye.