Unlike other sports, Baseball and Soccer (World Football) are played equally, but baseball is better than a football because every single player on the roaster has a chance to make a grab and the glory.Additionally you could catch the foul ball at the baseball game. The baseball field gets a little more complicated to understand for beginners in America's pastime. 

Thinking about it, the Fifth Room separated an entire text to explain the specifics and curiosities surrounding the sacred terrain of this sport.

Baseball is better than football: Nine Players Divided Into Two Parts

The nine defensive players are scattered around the field to try to maximize the chances of making defenses and, in general, the division is made in two parts.

In the grass area behind the ground, there are the outfielders (external defenders). There are usually three players - athletes can line up however they want despite having per-established positions - on the outside field to try to catch the shots.

The infield (internal field), on the other hand, has the infielders that are between the bases to the sand area that divides these two parts of the baseball field.

Montinho: The Heart Of The Baseball Field

The only way to put the ball in play is for the pitcher to throw the ball at the hitter. Thus, the main area of the field is the mound.

This area of land that is at the center of the infield equidistant between the bases is where the pitcher is before his pitches.

The mound is inclined and has a rubber plate (pitcher's plate or pitcher's rubber) on which the pitcher needs to touch his foot before and during his shots.

This rubber rectangle is 15 cm by 61 cm and is 18.44 meters from the back of the home-plate (main base).

Like the mound, the home plate is another key area for baseball practice. The main base of the sport serves as a parameter for the players and referee for the strike zone and is still the final goal of all runners, who need to cross this base to be able to record a race.

Around this rubber base, which is shaped like a pentagon, there is the batter's box, an area that delimits where the batters can position themselves in the confrontations against the pitcher and the catcher's box, an area behind the home plate that points where the receiver and the referee will position themselves.

The baseball is better than football in the field, It still has four more demarcations that are less important in terms of the game, but fundamental for the players and safety.

Next to the first and third bases, there is an area for coaches to position themselves and pass instructions to hitters.

Already close to the home plate, there is the on-deck circle, a region where the next hitter stays warm before it is his turn to hit the bat.

Baseball Field: Ball In, Ball Out

After the ball is hit it is not difficult to know if it is in play or out of play and thus better understand the rules of baseball. Two lines give "continuity" to the home plate at the ends of the field, passing through the first and third bases and delimiting the area within the field.

Whatever is knocked out of that area (right side of the first baseline and left side of the third baseline for those who see from the home plate), is not at stake if it touches the ground, as aerial ball eliminations can be anywhere in the field. Thus, the hitting will be a foul ball.

The balls that go into that area and in front of the home-plate are valid.

A particularity is that if a low ball touches the outside of the field, but ends up dying on the inside field or passing to the outside field inside the baselines in the infield, it is in play.

As the bases are entirely within the field, any ball that touches them will be in the valid territory.

To help determine the boundaries of the field, there is also the wall in the outfield, which marks when the field ends and still limits the home run zone, since balls that are in play and go over the wall without touching the ground give the four bases for the hitter.

There are also two yellow posts on the wall that line the first and third bases. So, if the ball hits the post the ball went in and, being a direct hit in the air, a home run. If you go to the outside of the post and also to the line that defines the foul ball area, the ball is out of the field.

Baseball Field: The Four Bases

After getting a hit, the goal of the runner is to complete a round on the four bases, which are the "pike" of the tag and what prevents them from being eliminated.

The turn must be done counterclockwise, passing from the first base, to the second, third until the home plate without any of them being skipped.

Baseball Field: The Measures

In addition to the distance between the mound and the home plate being 18.44 meters, the distance between the bases is 27.5 meters.

The wall or fence that delimits the end of the field is usually placed from 300 to 420 feet (91 to 128 meters) from the home plate, since it does not need to be uniform and can, for example, be larger in the field. right then left and among other possibilities.

Also, most fields have a land area near the home run wall that serves as a kind of warning for defenders to alert the end of the field. The name given to this land strip is a warning track.

Baseball Field: Bullpen

The bullpen is where the "reserve" pitchers, the relievers who will enter the field after the starter (opener), warm up during the match.

There are two types of the bullpen: some stadiums players need to warm up on the side of the field, which happens at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays. Another option is for the bullpen to be "hidden" usually in the outfield area behind the end of the field wall.

Baseball Field: Peculiarities Of The Field

Despite having basic parameters, the baseball field can have its peculiarities and this happens a lot in Major League Baseball. Two fields are mystical and have remarkable characteristics.

Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park has the famous Green Monster, a giant wall in the left-field, while Yankee Stadium, from its original version to the new stadium, is known to be an attractive field for left-handed hitters since your right field is considered short.

Besides, some stadiums are opting to use artificial turf such as the Rogers Center, home of the Toronto Blue Jays, which has no land in its internal field like the other stadiums.

Not to mention that, in addition to having ballparks with a retractable or closed roof, there was already a "heap" in the central field of Minute Maid Park with a flag in the middle of the field, among other specifics in other fields.

It is also important to mention that the Great American Ball Park (Cincinnati Reds) and Coors Field (Colorado Rockies) are known to be friendly for hitters and bad for pitchers, with the second one having as the main factor to affect athletes' performance Denver's altitude.

On the other hand, Oracle Park (formerly AT&T Park, San Francisco Giants) has larger dimensions and is known to be a real graveyard of flying balls, which even interferes with the average number of runs recorded in the stadium.