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  2. The Official Professional Baseball Rules Book - Wikipedia

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    the roster list rules (active and expanded rosters) which also determines who is eligible to play for a team in the playoffs and World Series; tie-breaking rules for deciding which teams go to the playoffs; implementing/enforcing the expanded playing rules issued to umpires which goes into much greater detail than the official baseball rules of

  3. Baseball scorekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Traditional-style baseball scorecard. Baseball scorekeeping is the practice of recording the details of a baseball game as it unfolds. Professional baseball leagues hire official scorers to keep an official record of each game (from which a box score can be generated), but many fans keep score as well for their own enjoyment. [1]

  4. Category:Baseball terminology - Wikipedia

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    Safe (baseball) Sandwich pick; Save (baseball) Scoreless innings streak; Scoring position; Series (baseball) Seventh-inning stretch; Shutout (baseball) Sidelines; Sign stealing; Single (baseball) Sistema Peralta; Slide (baseball) Slugging percentage; Slump (sports) Small ball (baseball) Speed Score; Squeeze play (baseball) Stolen base; Stolen ...

  5. Baseball rules - Wikipedia

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    Common pitches include a fastball, which is the ball thrown at high speed; a curveball, which is made to curve by rotation imparted by the pitcher; a change-up, which seeks to mimic the delivery of a fastball, but arrives at significantly lower velocity; a splitfinger fastball, which attempts to mimic the delivery of a fastball, but has slight ...

  6. Pickoff - Wikipedia

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    The Hornets scored the go-ahead run in their half of the inning, thus giving Stowe credit as the winning pitcher, despite not throwing a single pitch. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On August 24, 1983, Tippy Martinez of the Baltimore Orioles picked off three consecutive Toronto Blue Jays base runners in the first half of the 10th inning. [ 4 ]

  7. What is Rob Manfred's 'golden at-bat' idea, and how would it ...

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    The idea is simple. Once a game, a manager gets to put his best batter at the plate regardless of where the batting order stands. So imagine, as a pitcher facing the Dodgers, you get Shohei Ohtani ...

  8. Baseball positions - Wikipedia

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    In the sport of baseball, each of the nine players on a team is assigned a particular fielding position when it is their turn to play defense. Each position conventionally has an associated number, for use in scorekeeping by the official scorer: 1 (), 2 (), 3 (first baseman), 4 (second baseman), 5 (third baseman), 6 (), 7 (left fielder), 8 (center fielder), and 9 (right fielder). [1]

  9. Plate appearance - Wikipedia

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    The "time at bat" defined in this rule is more commonly referred to as a plate appearance, and the playing rules (Rules 1 through 8) uses the phrase "time at bat" in this sense (e.g. Rule 5.04(a)(3), which states that "[t]he first batter in each inning after the first inning shall be the player whose name follows that of the last player who ...