Baseball Game Tickets: A Guide to Comprehending ‘America's National Religion'

Baseball season is never really over, if people aren't watching the matches, they are discussing them, collecting paraphernalia, watching reruns of historic matches and awaiting the beginning of the next season to buy baseball game tickets. The following are the basics of the game:

Goal of the Game: The goal of the team is to score more points (runs) than the opponent team. The team earns runs by completing a circle around the three bases, clockwise and returning back to the home plate. The opponent team attempts to prevent the runs by getting the team players ‘out'. The game is largely played amongst the pitcher, the batter and the catchers.

The Play: Play starts with the batter ready to bat, standing at the home plate. The batter is required to hit the ball, pitched (or thrown) by the pitcher towards him/her. The pitcher's role involves getting a ‘strike', i.e. the batter swinging the bat at the ball and missing it. The pitcher may even try to get a strike by throwing the ball in the ‘strike zone', the area between the chest and knees of the batter. A ball hit in the ‘foul territory' is also a strike.

Offense: The batter's role is to hit the ball into the ‘fairground' where it cannot be caught, which would be called a ‘hit'. The batter may swing the bat to hit the ball or ‘blunt' it, i.e. keep the bat horizontally intact and let the ball hit it. If the batter-runner has covered only the first base, it is considered to be a single run. Reaching the home plate after covering all three bases is called a ‘home run'.

Defence: The defence team is the one pitching the ball. They may try to get the batter ‘out' by catching the hit ball before it touches the ground, tagging the batter- runner, or touching the base with a ball, besides aiming for three strikes in a row.

There are finer details of the game that are best learned as you watch the play yourself. So, book your baseball game tickets today and belong to ‘America's national religion', baseball.

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