How much do you know about major league baseball teams? (5)

QUESTIONS.
1. Who bats first? The home team or the visiting team?
2. What is the area into which the pitcher must throw the ball known as?
3. Pitches thrown into this area that the batter does not hit are known as
…..what?
4.‘ Strikes’ also includes pitches that the batter swings at but misses and the first
two times that a batter hits the ball out of the playing area (into foul territory).
After how many ‘strikes’ is a batter given out by the umpire?
5. Pitches outside the ‘strike zone’ are called ‘balls’.A batter can proceed to first
base after a pitcher has thrown how many ‘balls’?
6. What is this action called?
7. What is it called if a batter gets to first base after hitting the ball into the
playing area?
8. What is it called if the batter gets to seconds base after hitting the ball?
9. What is it called if the batter gets to third base?
10. What is it called if the batter gets all the way round the four bases (including
the ‘home plate’) on one hit?
11. What is it called if a batter scores a home run from a ball which remains inside
the field of play (as opposed to a ball knocked over the outfield fence, the usual
source of home runs)?
12. What is the play called if there are three runners, one at each base, preceding
the batter who hits the ‘home run’, all of whom get home and all score runs?
13. How many professional teams are there in each of the National League and the
American League?
14. How many divisions are there in each of the leagues?
15. What are the divisions called?

ANSWERS.
1.The visitors 2.The ‘strike zone’. 3.‘Strikes’. 4.Three. 5. Four. 6.‘A walk’. 7.A ‘base
hit’ 8.A ‘double’. 9.A ‘triple’. 10.A ‘home run’. 11.An ‘inside-the-park home run’. 12.A
‘grand slam’. 13. Fourteen. 14.Three. 15. Eastern, Central and Western Divisions.