Please someone explain to me rules of Baseball...!

Brisk.

a lot of replies!

many thanks

im gonna get through them now.

********EDIT***** - In cricket there are many many many types of deliveries ( bowls ) that a bowler can do, but in baseball what are examples? slow delivery or what :S

Football is so simple, just 2 goals and 11 each side and you just kick a ball without hurting each other and try to put it back in the oppositions goal for a goal.
-Offside rule is simple
-http://www.offside-ref.co.uk/laws/11-offside-rule/detailed/

MrSmith wrote:

i watched Cricket one time for over an hour and still had no fucking clue what was going on. I thought maybe it was like baseball but i was wrong.

they just kept hitting the ball and running to a stick. wtf!

Cricket is a complex one.

If you just visualise a cricket pitch which is 2 wickets in the centre and the rest just "outfield". A bowler will bowl the ball to the batsmen and the batsmen job is to hit the ball over the rope (edge of the grass outfield), that means he scores 6 runs, if it bounces before hand its 4 runs, and if he just hits it anywhere the batsmen can choose to run to the opposite end, thats why you see the batsmen running up and down, and yes so the "strike" does change unless they get 2 runs or something even.

Batsmen can be run out, so if a fielder throws the ball at the stumps or to his team mate to hit the wicket before the batsment gets his bat inside the "crease" where the batsmen stands at the wicket (basic explanation of that). They can also get out but hitting it with their bat in the air and someone catching it. The batsment can also be out by getting bowled, i.e he missing the ball as its too fast a delivery and the ball hits the stumps, he can also get out by himself by himself hitting the wicket. The important thing is the bails ontop of the wicket must fall off in all these caircumstances except catching or LBW.There is also the LBW - leg before wicket rule. As its unfair for a batsmen just to stand in the way of the wicket so he cant get out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_before_wicket < probably bet at explaining it

In One Day cricket there are 50 overs. 1 bowler bowls 6 balls in an over and they have a certain limit, i think one day is 10 overs and then there must be a new bowler. The bowler cannot bowl 10 overs in a row, 1 bowler bowls from one end and the other bowls from another end. After 6 balls the end changes, so the batsment at the other end is now on "strike". So one team will bat and make a score as much as they can or if they all get out ( 10 wickets taken) then the opposite team are in and try to beat the score which the other team just made.

Test cricket is played over 5 days, just a longer game and usually just wear white clothing! Its basically like one day but there are 80 overs in a day and they each have 2 innings and a bowler can bowl as many overs as he wants.

I hope this makes some sort of sense its a bloody complex game.

chime

vedder_soup wrote:

Yeah, and the game last for 5 days!!
Great fun in the summer, sit in front of the TV with a beer, 5 days in a row
and they usually have at least 5 of these 5 day matches a summer!

We have set up the TV in the garden and added a bbq

If only we didn't have to sit and watch the score tick over on a computer for the first 3 days :( Saw a bit of WI v Aus in the pub couple of weekends ago. You see any of the Eng v NZ?

Summer tours are great. My Mum finally got into it a couple of years ago and I would get lots of phone calls asking about the rules. Definately a complicated sport when you get down to the details.

For anyone actually wanting to understand cricket whether the basics or more complex rules the bbc site has good info http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/rules_and_equipment/default.stm

dunkman

any sport where the stats are more important than the actual gameplay should be avoided.

so thats

baseball
us football


typical commentary

"thats his 17th home run, and thats not be done since 1949 where it was 86% humidity and the ball was 95% heavier than it is now... he's now hit a home run on every matchday where there has been 14 nurses sitting in row 14 of this stadium, which by the way is the 49th stadium not to have been built using man-made materials.. making it the 2nd longest stadium to construct with over 14,000 metric tons of concrete used for the foundations... and if you stretched these foundations they would go to Pluto and back 4 times"


that kinda thing

Super Vedder

dunkman wrote:

any sport where the stats are more important than the actual gameplay should be avoided.

so thats

baseball
us football


typical commentary

"thats his 17th home run, and thats not be done since 1949 where it was 86% humidity and the ball was 95% heavier than it is now... he's now hit a home run on every matchday where there has been 14 nurses sitting in row 14 of this stadium, which by the way is the 49th stadium not to have been built using man-made materials.. making it the 2nd longest stadium to construct with over 14,000 metric tons of concrete used for the foundations... and if you stretched these foundations they would go to Pluto and back 4 times"


that kinda thing

hahaha, as soon as i saw you had the last post on this thread i knew it would be comedy gold!

those were some of the best stats ive ever seen aswell, good work!

vedder_soup

Chime wrote:

We have set up the TV in the garden and added a bbq

If only we didn't have to sit and watch the score tick over on a computer for the first 3 days :( Saw a bit of WI v Aus in the pub couple of weekends ago. You see any of the Eng v NZ?

Summer tours are great. My Mum finally got into it a couple of years ago and I would get lots of phone calls asking about the rules. Definately a complicated sport when you get down to the details.

i saw the lunch break from old trafford the other week

WI v Australia is in the wrong time zone here!! midnight till 7am, and i don't have pay tv so i can't watch it!

Saw a bit of the IPL, some good cricket there! how about shane warne! great job!

chime

vedder_soup wrote:

Saw a bit of the IPL, some good cricket there! how about shane warne! great job!

Admit you were watching it for the cheerleaders weren't you ... who'd have thought the IPL would be the ones to bring cheerleading to cricket

OffHeGoes29

Watch hockey

vedder_soup

Chime wrote:

Admit you were watching it for the cheerleaders weren't you ... who'd have thought the IPL would be the ones to bring cheerleading to cricket

no, there is better stuff than the cheerleaders on late night television!
Synchronized Swimming for example!!

Anon

I BrisK I wrote:

Baseball is always on late night over here and I watch it and i just dont get it. Can someone explain the rules to me please?

There are only 2 things you need to know.

Rule 1. being a masshole automatically gives you awesome status
Rule 2. learn the papelbon dance. the chicks will love you.

that is all.

Steve Dunne

dunkman wrote:

any sport where the stats are more important than the actual gameplay should be avoided.

so thats

baseball
us football


typical commentary

"thats his 17th home run, and thats not be done since 1949 where it was 86% humidity and the ball was 95% heavier than it is now... he's now hit a home run on every matchday where there has been 14 nurses sitting in row 14 of this stadium, which by the way is the 49th stadium not to have been built using man-made materials.. making it the 2nd longest stadium to construct with over 14,000 metric tons of concrete used for the foundations... and if you stretched these foundations they would go to Pluto and back 4 times"


that kinda thing

please also add golf to this.

hit the ball. go find the ball. hit the ball again. go find the ball.

Brisk.

Steve Dunne wrote:

please also add golf to this.

hit the ball. go find the ball. hit the ball again. go find the ball.

i'll have you know, golf is one of the hardest sports.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

since i started playing Fantasy baseball a couple of years ago, i'm addicted to baseball now. i dont watch it, mind you, but i know the stats! I check my stats every day. I'm so sick.

I dont even know who most of my team plays for in real life. I just know they better play hard for Roger Rocket's Roid Ragers or their ass gets cut!

Steve Dunne

I BrisK I wrote:

i'll have you know, golf is one of the hardest sports.

haha no kidding! i suck at playing golf!

baseball = hitting, throwing, catching. anyone can catch the ball. some throw it harder, faster, further than others. hitting a baseball is one of the toughest things to do in all of sports.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

I BrisK I wrote:

a lot of replies!

many thanks

im gonna get through them now.

********EDIT***** - In cricket there are many many many types of deliveries ( bowls ) that a bowler can do, but in baseball what are examples? slow delivery or what :S

Football is so simple, just 2 goals and 11 each side and you just kick a ball without hurting each other and try to put it back in the oppositions goal for a goal.
-Offside rule is simple
-http://www.offside-ref.co.uk/laws/11-offside-rule/detailed/



Cricket is a complex one.

If you just visualise a cricket pitch which is 2 wickets in the centre and the rest just "outfield". A bowler will bowl the ball to the batsmen and the batsmen job is to hit the ball over the rope (edge of the grass outfield), that means he scores 6 runs, if it bounces before hand its 4 runs, and if he just hits it anywhere the batsmen can choose to run to the opposite end, thats why you see the batsmen running up and down, and yes so the "strike" does change unless they get 2 runs or something even.

Batsmen can be run out, so if a fielder throws the ball at the stumps or to his team mate to hit the wicket before the batsment gets his bat inside the "crease" where the batsmen stands at the wicket (basic explanation of that). They can also get out but hitting it with their bat in the air and someone catching it. The batsment can also be out by getting bowled, i.e he missing the ball as its too fast a delivery and the ball hits the stumps, he can also get out by himself by himself hitting the wicket. The important thing is the bails ontop of the wicket must fall off in all these caircumstances except catching or LBW.There is also the LBW - leg before wicket rule. As its unfair for a batsmen just to stand in the way of the wicket so he cant get out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_before_wicket < probably bet at explaining it

In One Day cricket there are 50 overs. 1 bowler bowls 6 balls in an over and they have a certain limit, i think one day is 10 overs and then there must be a new bowler. The bowler cannot bowl 10 overs in a row, 1 bowler bowls from one end and the other bowls from another end. After 6 balls the end changes, so the batsment at the other end is now on "strike". So one team will bat and make a score as much as they can or if they all get out ( 10 wickets taken) then the opposite team are in and try to beat the score which the other team just made.

Test cricket is played over 5 days, just a longer game and usually just wear white clothing! Its basically like one day but there are 80 overs in a day and they each have 2 innings and a bowler can bowl as many overs as he wants.

I hope this makes some sort of sense its a bloody complex game.

oooh i must have been watching test cricket.

Brisk.

MrSmith wrote:

oooh i must have been watching test cricket.

:P used to play tonnes of cricket but you really gotta be hardcore to sit there and watch an entire test match..

even one day can be a struggle for some people, but if you get 2 good teams you get some sick games. Like Autralia broke the world record for amount of runs scored in a one day innings ( 50 overs ) which is like 420 or something. This in its self its just ridiculous and they did it against the 2nd best one day team South Africa... everyone at that point was like wow SA are going to get owned.. but then SA came back and broke the world record that AUS just set and won

good shit.

PJamGrunge10

I BrisK I wrote:

********EDIT***** - In cricket there are many many many types of deliveries ( bowls ) that a bowler can do, but in baseball what are examples? slow delivery or what :S

They can throw however they want really, nut most pitchers have an overhand delivery and some throw sidearm. There is also a "submarine" style pitcher that throws the ball underhand, but not as in softball which is more of a catapult motion, but they actually throw the ball if that makes sense. Also, these [itching styles or deliveries are called 'wind-ups'.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

there are different pitches in baseball. fastballs, sliders, change-ups, curveballs, etc. whatever it takes to make the batter miss

Wobbie

einatshaul wrote:

The Mariners are asking themselves the same thing

Excellent observation!!

Brisk.

MrSmith wrote:

there are different pitches in baseball. fastballs, sliders, change-ups, curveballs, etc. whatever it takes to make the batter miss

now explain to me what all those mean!

how do you make a baseball curve?

sennin

einatshaul wrote:

The Mariners are asking themselves the same thing

LOL! I'm going to send them that Wiki link.