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*’baseball’ is a ‘bat-and-ball’ game played between 2 teams of 9 players each, who take turns ‘batting’ + ‘fielding’*
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(the ‘batting team’ attempts to score runs by hitting a ball that is thrown by the opposing team’s pitcher with a bat swung by the batter, then running counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third, and ‘home plate’)
(a run is scored when a player advances around the bases and returns to ‘home plate’)
(players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways)
(a player on the batting team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates’ turns batting, such as on a hit or by other means)
(the teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records 3 outs)
(one turn batting for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an ‘inning’)
(a ‘game’ is composed of nine innings, and the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins)
(if scores are tied at the end of nine innings, extra innings are usually played(
(‘baseball’ has no game clock, although almost all games end in the 9th inning)
(‘baseball’ evolved from older bat-and-ball games already being played in england by the mid-18th century)
(this game was brought by immigrants to ‘North America’, where the modern version developed)
(by the late 19th century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the ‘United States’)
(‘baseball’ is currently popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, particularly ‘japan’)
(in the ‘United States’ and Canada, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and ‘central’)
(the major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the ‘World Series’)
(the top level of play is similarly split in Japan between the Central and Pacific Leagues and in Cuba between the “West League” and “East League”)
“THE YANKEES”
“ALEX RODRIGUEZ”
sophomore year (high school)
junior varsity player
(coached by dom mastrionni)
half-heartedly tried out for high school summer team
having a catch with rob eorio on the last day of school
rob santana warned me that excessive weightlifting would ruin my (non-) throwing arm
mike + I are polar opposites
(he is defined by his cannon throwing arm)
(that’s why he’s an outfielder)
i was an outfielder too
(by default)
jeff falzarano left me a voicemail
(broke me down gently)
(told me that my throwing is troublesome)
(and that he’d possibly call upon me during the summer as a designated hitter)
this was when the younger kids (higgins + co) took hold of the baseball program in earnest
(i was relieved)
(wanted to spend the summer lazing away. not playing baseball)
(the next year I signed up for lacrosse in a flurry of excitement)
NY Mets defeat florida marlins 7-1 on opening day
(david wright home run on first at-bat)
NEW YORK YANKEES:
my mother loves the yankees
because her husband loves the yankees
she doesn’t understand a goddamned thing about baseball
yet she can sit on the sidelines and judge
NEW YORK METS:
the “loser’s team”
LOS ANGELES ANGELS:
(LA Angels winning 8-2)
(Anaheim / California)
(like ari bringing NFL team to LA???)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥