How baseball works
Two teams, three outs, runs and innings. The whole game in about two minutes.
The rule: Get three outs before they score. Then it's your turn to bat.
Two teams
One team bats. One team fields.
The batting team sends up one hitter at a time, trying to hit the ball and run the bases. The fielding team — that's you — tries to get them out. This whole app is about the fielding half.
Outs
Three outs and everybody switches.
Catch a fly ball, beat a runner to a base, or tag them with the ball — that's an out. Three outs end the inning: the batting team grabs their gloves, and now YOU get to bat.
Runs
A run scores when a runner touches home.
Runners go to first base, then second, then third, then home — always in that order. Every runner who makes it all the way around scores one run. Your job as a fielder is to stop that.
Innings
Nine innings. Most runs wins.
An inning is one turn batting for each team. Big-league games have nine of them. Whoever has more runs at the end wins. That's the whole game — everything else is detail.
Your very first play.
Ground ball to you at shortstop, nobody on base. Only one runner to worry about: the batter. Tap where the throw goes.