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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. The following websites may also prove of interest to the Baseball fan. The interactive Baseball game who brought you this website. Gameplan Baseball Sports Network. An unofficial site about Gameplan Baseball. Run by the players, for the players. All of the other games, sports and non-sports, run by the Gameplan Baseball people.
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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. This website, How Baseball Works, is a guide to Major League Baseball, brought to you by the online interactive Baseball Management game, Gameplan Baseball. For more details about Gameplan Baseball please see. This website is divided into sections, each of which details a particular element of baseball as follows:-. Rotation and the Bullpen. Confused by c...
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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. Midway through each Major League Season, play stops for five days for the All Star Break. The starting players are selected for the All-Star teams by a vote of other players, baseball writers and by the fans, either voting at games, or via the Internet, whilst the remainder of the team are selected by the two team managers (who are the two managers who re...
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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. The easiest way to score a run is to hit a home run! If the batter hits the ball out of the park (within the fair territory lines) then he gets to trot around all of the bases and scores a run, and any other base runners also score. However, only 10-15% of hits are home runs, so teams shouldn't rely on the long ball to score runs (though some do)! There a...
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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. Officials - Umpires and Scorers. As with any game, there have to be officials to manage the game, and decide on contentious issues. In Baseball, the officials are called Umpires. Normally Umpires work in a crew of four, taking it in turns to occupy the role of Home Plate Umpire. The home plate umpire will normally call a strike. In addition to the home pl...
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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. The Major League Baseball season runs from the start of April to the end of September, with each club playing 162 games. That means about one day off every ten days, so baseball is pretty much game-a-day. Of two or three series. So a fan can expect to have a week of home games, and then nothing but Baseball on TV for the next week or so. In modern day Bas...
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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. The batting lineup (the order in which the hitters appear) is very deliberately chosen by a team, as the order in which the players with different skills appear is key in optimising the chances of scoring runs. As a general rule of thumb the batting lineup consists of the table setters, the sluggers and the bottom of the lineup. The sluggers will generall...
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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. Each team has a large and complex management structure, as the running of a Major League ball club (and its minor league teams) is a huge task. The management can generally be divided into The Front Office (the suits) and The Coaching Staff (who look after the players day-to-day, and during the game). Teams will usually also have a bullpen coach. Responsi...
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How Baseball Works (a guide to the game of Baseball)
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A guide to Major League Baseball. Brought to you by. Scoring and Base- Running. Rotation and the Bullpen. World Series and Playoffs. The Field of Play. The World Series (and the Playoffs). In the first round, the no.1 ranked team plays the no.4 ranked team (and no.2 plays no.3), unless they came from the same division, in which case 1 plays 3, and 2 plays 4. Ties in rankings are broken by the toss of a coin! Home field Advantage for the World Series is currently decided by whichever league wins the All-S...
