BASEBALL 

BASEBALL RULES: 

Baseball or baseball is a two-team sport whose purpose is after hitting the ball with a "bat" to go through the bases until you return to the starting point. 10 baseball rules are:

If the pitcher or pitcher hits the ball to the batter, he takes first base without hitting the ball: if there is a player at first base, he goes to second.

The pitcher must not spit on the ball, hands or gloves.

To consider that a player "passes through a base" the player must touch the base.

Not glass or polished metal buttons can be used on the uniform

After three strike "out" is sung

If a ball thrown by the batter is taken by the opposing team before it hits the ground, it is "out."

If the batter does not hit the ball and passes through the "validate" zone, the pitch is strike.

If the batter tries to hit the ball and passes through an "invalid" zone, it is a strike.

If the batter does not attempt to hit the ball and passes through an "invalid" zone, it is a strike.     

Batters must follow the batting order established by the technician before starting the game.

Baseball is a competitive sport consisting of two teams of nine players each, where at one point one team defends and at the other attacks, the idea of ​​the game is for the "attacking" team to receive the ball from a pitcher or pitcher of the another team, hitting it with a bat and then running as many bases as possible before being touched by the ball, or before being touched by a player holding the ball.

When the player is touching the base, he cannot be touched by the opposing team, that is to say, "he is safe". Then under the same conditions he must continue walking the bases as his teammates now hitters manage to hit the ball.

In total there are 3 bases and a home plate (batting place), the player scores a run if he reaches home plate again without being touched.

Baseball is generally made up of 9 innings (although it can be expanded) where in each inning each team has the opportunity to defend and attack, the inning ends after the two teams have played and each has reached 3 outs. Baseball rules are extensive and necessary, they also specify how to proceed in each situation.

FAVORITE TEAM

          The New York Yankees (Español, Yanquis de Nueva York) are a professional American baseball team based in New York City. They compete in the Eastern Division of the American League (AL) of the Major League Baseball (MLB) and play their home games at Yankee Stadium, located in the borough of The Bronx.

The team was founded in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles (unrelated to the current Orioles) and two years later it moved to New York, where it changed its name to New York Highlanders. The Highlanders adopted the Yankees name in 1913.

The Yankees are the most successful franchise in the history of American sports. His record includes a total of twenty-seven World Series, forty American League pennants and nineteen divisional titles, all MLB records. Some of the considered best players in baseball history, such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Derek Jeter, Roger Clemens or Álex Rodríguez, have militated in the ranks of the New York team.

          According to Forbes magazine, the New York Yankees are the second most valuable sports club in the world and the first in the MLB with an estimated value of $ 4.6 billion.

Alex Rodriguez

Alexander Emmanuel Rodríguez (New York; July 27, 1975) is a former American professional baseball player of Dominican descent who played in the Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. He won two gold gloves and nine silver bats. He previously played shortstop for the Seattle Mariners, and then for the Texas Rangers. Nicknamed A-Rod, he has been the second player with that name, given that in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Mexican third baseman Aurelio Rodríguez, a player from the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers and New York Yankees, was nicknamed that way.

Rodríguez is considered one of the best baseball players of all time. He is the youngest player to connect 500 homeruns, breaking the record set by Jimmie Foxx in 1939, and the youngest to reach 600, beating Babe Ruth's record for a year.

Over 14 seasons he pushed 100 more runs, more than any other player in history. On September 24, 2010, Alex connected two homeruns, surpassing Sammy Sosa's 609 homerun mark, and becoming the all-time homerun leader for a player of Hispanic descent.

In December 2007, Rodríguez and the Yankees agreed to a 10-year, $ 276 million contract. This contract was the longest in baseball history (breaking his previous record of $ 252 million).

Already for the 2015 season, Rodriguez had a great comeback, hitting 33 homers and hitting 3,000 career hits with a home run to right field against pitches by Detroit right-back pitcher Tigers Justin Verlander. He is one of the players with the roundest numbers in history, having accumulated more than 3,000 hits, more than 2,000 runs scored, more than 2,000 runs pushed and more than 690 homeruns.

On Sunday August 7, 2016, Rodríguez announced his retirement from baseball at a press conference, despite having a current contract for the 2017 season, with the New York Yankees, his low batting percentage as well as injuries forced him to take this decision.

On August 12, 2016, Alex Rodríguez played his last major league game in baseball against the Tampa Bay Rays, connecting an extra base in the first inning. At the end of the game he was fired by a great ovation from the public and his teammates. He failed to hit 700 home runs as desired. He ended his career with 696 home runs being the fourth home run of all time behind Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.

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