🤣 Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding on a diamond-shaped field with four bases arranged in a square. The game begins with the pitcher throwing a small, hard ball toward home plate, where the batter attempts to hit it into fair territory. If successful, the batter runs counterclockwise around the bases—first, second, third, and back to home—to score a run. The fielding team tries to prevent runs by getting three “ou