The Washington Nationals beat Houston in the World Series!!
The World Series is USA' s baseball's equivalent of the World Cup!
A normal baseball game has nine innings. One inning means both teams have a chance to be offense and defense one time. A team gets points when one player hits the ball with the bat and touches every base without another player catching the ball (without it touching the ground) or a player getting the ball and then touching him or a base the player needs to go to.
There are lots of ways to get "out." Three outs makes it the other team's turn. If you don't hit the ball when the umpire thinks you can, that's a strike. Three strikes and you are out. A ball hit off the field (FOUL) counts as a strike, but never the last strike. If you hit the ball, but someone catches it before it touches the ground, you are out. If someone gets the ball and touches the base you need to touch before you, you are out.
If the pitcher doesn't throw the ball in the good place that it is possible to hit, that's a ball. Four balls and the player gets to walk to first base.
Baseball games can be very long, and fans sitting in the stadium can get sore from sitting too long. When teams switch places in the middle of the seventh inning, everybody stands up, stretches, wiggles, and sings, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game!! It's called the seventh inning stretch.
Are you a Nats fan? Do you understand how baseball is played? Do you like baseball? Do you have any favorite players? Did you stay up to watch any of the games!!
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