Baseball

Hall of Famer Ted Williams once said that baseball is perhaps the only field where a person can be successful three out of ten times and be considered a good performer at their job. So what was he referencing by saying someone could fail that often but still be successful? He was referencing a hitter’s … Read more

Like most sports, baseball requires instructions and guidance from the sidelines. In most sports, coaches shout instructions from the sideline, often involving calling a play or a certain alignment, or something of that sort. Baseball does the same thing but through the use of signs. So, what are signs in baseball? Signs are a non-verbal … Read more

At some point in time, every baseball fan goes through the same feeling: the excitement of your favorite team signing a big-name free agent to a big contract. However, all too often, those contracts don’t pan out and the team and its fans are left counting the days until the contract comes off the books, … Read more

In every professional sport, the goal is to end each season as the champion. Baseball is no different, in that the one team left standing at the end of each year winds up soaked in champagne as they hoist the World Series trophy over their heads. However, what is the road to earning that trophy … Read more

When you’re talking about baseball equipment, there are two pieces that go down to the very foundation of what the game is: the bat and the ball. Obviously, to hit said ball, you need a bat, and consequently, as the game has evolved, so have the bats that are in charge of putting the ball … Read more

When you attend a Major League Baseball (MLB) game and look up at the massive scoreboard that’s in the outfield of virtually every park, you will usually notice several columns towards the end of the line score. There are your usual runs, hits, and errors for both teams, and then some parks have runners left … Read more

In baseball, a hitter is often told to work the count. That of course means to make the pitcher work hard to get you out, rather than swinging at the first pitch and hitting it weakly right at someone. When a batter works a long count, though, that may very well result in what is … Read more

Sometimes in baseball, it’s just not your team’s day. Whether the hitters are hitting rockets right at defenders, or the opposing pitcher is locked in, sometimes the runs just simply don’t come, making the possibility of getting shutout a real thing. So, what is a shutout in baseball? A shutout in baseball is when one … Read more

When a pitcher starts a baseball game, the goal is to get the most outs possible while also allowing as few runs as possible during that time. Of course, this may seem simple and ambiguous, and indeed, on the surface that’s a rather vague goal. With that said, someone came up with a stat to … Read more

In baseball, it is known by just about everyone that there are nine players on the field. Ever since the rules of baseball were first drawn up in 1845, that is a concept of the game that has never changed. However, as the game evolved, the need for substitutions became evident, meaning that more than … Read more