Rooting for a Baseball Team on Offense

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"So let's talk a little batting. The main objective there is just to get on base. However that, however you need to do that and the first and maybe the easiest way is a walk. Now a walk is four balls, that's four balls outside of the strike zone. And it takes a lot of patience to work a walk as they call in the game. As to get a walk, it takes some patience. You have to really be cautious of swinging at a ball outside the zone. The greatest of hitters work walks like crazy. They really, and many pitchers pitch around the greatest of hitters. And maybe the next objective for a hitter is simply just to get a single. And a single is basically a ball that you hit and you make it to first base with, before the ball does. Now that could get through the infield and that can get to the outfielders on the ground and many times that, that will lead to a single. Or it could be a ball that's hit into the, into one of the big holes where the guy can't throw it there fast enough and you beat it to first base. Also sometimes you get on something called an error. Now an error is simply an error made by an infielder or an outfielder where a fly ball that they drop, or a ground ball that they bobble and they don't get it to first base. That's not called a hit but that's called an error but you're still on base and you get to first base and that ultimately is the objective no matter how you get there. There's also something called a double which is, which is when you get to second base without the ball beating you there. Many times those are hit into the outfield and many times they're hit in between the gaps, in between the fielders. And then there's also something called the triple which is a very rare thing throughout the levels of baseball. That is when you get to third base without the ball beating you there. And then the ultimate in hitting is hitting a home run and that's when you hit the ball over the fence, regardless of where it is, within the lines. There's a right field line and a left field line that were both created to create kind of a diamond shape so that you know where you can hit the ball. And there are also posts at the end of these lines that are usually in yellow that tell you that you have to hit it within those those posts. So if you hit it over the fence and within those posts, that's a home run and then you get to take all four bases and they can't throw the ball in to try to get, to try to get you at home. That is not, that is an automatic run and if anybody else is on base at that time, those people also score within that home run. But again the ultimate in hitting, I will say from experience is definitely hitting a home run because there's no better feeling. "