talk for days on how to play baseball because there's some intricacies of the game itself.

But in short let's explain it this way. There are nine players, nine on defense, nine on

offense. On offense the nine players must bat in the same batting order each and every

time. So if you occupy the first place in the batting order, each time you come to bat

you would bat after the ninth place hitter. On defense we have nine players. On the pitcher's

mound, directly behind me, we have the pitcher. The pitcher's the guy that puts the ball in

play by throwing the ball to the catcher. The catcher is placed behind home plate and

is the only person that plays in foul territory. He's usually in the squatting position to

receive the ball into the strike zone which we'll talk about in a moment. The other players

are located two on the right side of the infield or the dirt area, one at first, one at second,

they're called the first basemen and second basemen respectively. And two more players

on the left side of the infield, a shortstop which plays near second base, and the third

basemen who plays near third base. The other three players are the left fielder, the center

fielder, and the right fielder. All of these players play on defense until three outs are

recorded. Outs are recorded, in this fashion. The pitcher throws the ball to the catcher.

The strike zone is an imaginary zone that's a rectangle. The outside part of the rectangle

is the outside part of the plate, the inside part is the inside part of the plate which

is basically eighteen inches wide. The top of the strike zone is basically the chest

of the batter, and the lower part of the zone is basically the knees batter, so everything

that passes in this rectangle would be recorded as the strike if the umpire deems it to be

in that zone. Each batter gets three strikes and then if he doesn't put the ball in play,

he's declared out, whether he takes the ball or whether he swings at the ball. An out is

recorded, you get three swings per batter, there's also something called a ball. If the

pitcher fails to throw the ball in that strike zone rectangle it's recorded as a ball and

that's at the umpire's discretion. Once four balls are recorded, the batter is awarded

first base on a base on balls, so he goes unimpeded and unchallenged to first base.

Each offensive team gets three outs, outs can be recorded by strike outs as we've described,

or by balls that caught in the air by a defensive player, or if a defensive player catches a

ball that has struck the ground, if he throws it to the base, the guy is going to, and it's

a force play where the guy has to run to that base, and the first case here being first,

then that is an out. If the ball beats the runner to the base, and the first basement

is in contact with the base when he catches the ball, then that's recorded as an out.

Each offensive team gets three outs before they are - they're half of the inning over.

Once three outs are recorded the defensive team now becomes the offensive team and the

offensive team takes the field, and that's called an inning. Each team - or each game

is nine innings, and as long as the score is not tied, the team with the most runs at

the end of nine innings is declared the winner of the game. Should the game be tied, then

they play extra innings until one team is one run in front of the other team and therefore

is rewarded the game as the winning team. And basically and in short, that's how you

play the game of baseball.