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    Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams, with the objective of the batting team being to hit the ball into play and run around four bases to score runs, while the fielding team aims to record outs to prevent runs. A game is composed of nine innings, with teams alternating between batting and fielding each inning, and the team with the most runs at the end wins. Baseball evolved from older English games and was brought to North America, developing into the popular national pastime it is recognized as in the United States and parts of Latin America and Asia today.

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    Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams, with the objective of the batting team being to hit the ball into play and run around four bases to score runs, while the fielding team aims to record outs to prevent runs. A game is composed of nine innings, with teams alternating between batting and fielding each inning, and the team with the most runs at the end wins. Baseball evolved from older English games and was brought to North America, developing into the popular national pastime it is recognized as in the United States and parts of Latin America and Asia today.

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    Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams, with the objective of the batting team being to hit the ball into play and run around four bases to score runs, while the fielding team aims to record outs to prevent runs. A game is composed of nine innings, with teams alternating between batting and fielding each inning, and the team with the most runs at the end wins. Baseball evolved from older English games and was brought to North America, developing into the popular national pastime it is recognized as in the United States and parts of Latin America and Asia today.

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    Baseball

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    Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams, with the objective of the batting team being to hit the ball into play and run around four bases to score runs, while the fielding team aims to record outs to prevent runs. A game is composed of nine innings, with teams alternating between batting and fielding each inning, and the team with the most runs at the end wins. Baseball evolved from older English games and was brought to North America, developing into the popular national pastime it is recognized as in the United States and parts of Latin America and Asia today.

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    Baseball

    Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and
    fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball
    which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objectives of the offensive team
    (batting team) are to hit the ball into the field of play, and to run the bases - having its runners
    advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called "runs". The objective of the
    defensive team (fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners'
    advance around the bases.[1] A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in
    order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The team who scores
    the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.
    The first objective of the batting team is to have a player reach base safely. A player on the batting
    team who reaches a base safely, without being called "out", can later attempt to advance to
    subsequent bases (i.e. 2nd base, 3rd base, home plate) as a runner, during teammates' turns
    batting.The fielding team tries to prevent runs by getting batters or runners "out", which forces them
    out of the field of play and back to their team (usually temporarily). Both the pitcher and fielders
    have methods of getting the batting team's players out.
    The opposing teams switch back and forth between batting and fielding; the batting team's turn to
    bat is over whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn batting for each teams
    constitutes an inning. A game is usually 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 most games end in the ninth
    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 in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.
    In the United States and Canada, 30 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 World Baseball Classic, organized by
    World Baseball Softball Confederation, is the major international competition of the sport and
    attracts the top national teams from around the world.

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