Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team,
The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play
having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs".
The opposing teams switch back and forth between batting and fielding