What does whip mean in baseball?
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WALKS AND HITS PER INNINGS PITCHED. IT'S A GOOD MEASURE OF A PITCHER'S OVERALL PERFORMANCE.
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what does this have to do with baseball?
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caught \nstumped\nbowled\nLBW\nRun\n\nAnd if any one teases umpire.
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#1: A balk is when you go to pick off a runner, but step towards home plate and then go towards the bag, you have to make a continous step to the bag you're going to pick off.\n\n#2: is when the pitcher does not come to a complete stop in his wind-up and pause in his motion to home plate.
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If a batter comes to the plate with runners already on base, hits the ball and runners score, he is credited with an RBI for each run scored or (Run Batted In)\n\nhttp://bestsportsdirect.com  Baseball hitting sticks on sale now!
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It means Runs Batted In. It refers to all the points made when the batter hits the ball, i.e., all the runners on base that make it to home plate.
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In baseball statistics the term save (abbreviated SV, or sometimes, S) is used to indicate the successful maintenance of a lead by a relief pitcher, usually the closer, until the end of the game. A save is credited to a pitcher who fulfills the following three conditions:\n\nThe pitcher is the last pitcher in a game won by his team; \nThe pitcher is not the winning pitcher (for instance, if a starting pitcher throws a complete game win); \nThe pitcher fulfills at least one of the following three conditions: \nHe comes into the game with a lead of no more than three runs, and pitches at least one full inning. \nHe comes into the game with the potential tying run being either on base, at bat, or on deck. In other words, the potential tying run is either already on base or is one of the first two batters he faces. \nHe pitches at least three "effective" innings (this is the only subjective criterion and is judged by the official scorer). \nIf the pitcher surrenders the lead at any point, he cannot get a save, even if his team comes back to win. No more than one save may be credited in each game.\n\nIf a relief pitcher satisfies all the criteria for a save, except he does not finish the game, he will often be credited with a hold.\n\nSave rules have changed over the years; the above rules are taken from the Official Baseball Rules 2004.\n\nThe save is defined in Section 10.20 of Major League Baseball Official Rules. The statistic was formally introduced in 1969, although research has identified saves earned prior to that point.\n\nA blown save (abbreviated BS) is charged to a pitcher who enters a game in a situation which permits him to earn a save (a 'save situation'), but who instead allows the tying run (and perhaps the go-ahead run) to score. As with any other similar situation, if the pitcher's team does not come back to win the game, said pitcher will be charged with both the loss and a 'blown save.' The blown save is not an officially recognized statistic, but many sources keep track of them. Blown saves have been tracked since 1988. Once a pitcher blows a save, he is no longer eligible to earn a save in that game (since the lead that he was trying to "save" has disappeared), although he can earn a win if his team regains the lead. For this reason, most closers' records include few wins. Closers make the majority of their appearances with their team ahead, so a win usually includes a blown save.\n\nIf a pitcher enters a game in a save situation (for a team leading by three runs or less) in an inning which is not the last (e.g. in a regulation 9-inning home game, pitching the top of the 8th), and his team later scores one or more run(s) to extend their lead beyond three runs, then as long as the same pitcher pitches until the end of the game, he is still credited with the save. As the various roles of relief pitchers have changed since the 1960s, closers who often pitch two or more innings have become increasingly rare; although exceptions remain.\n\nA pitcher also cannot create his own save situation. For instance, if he enters the game with a lead too large for a save, he would not make himself eligible for a save by surrendering enough runs to contract the lead to within save range. It must be a save situation when he enters the game, or he will not be able to earn one.
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Pure dominator on the mound, Pedro Martinez. When he pitches he controls the game. His has a blazing fastball, tricky curveball, and other pitches to his repetoire. Not only does he have the arm, he has amazing control of spotting the pitch. Maddox is also a pitch spotter, but his fastball doesn't have the pop like Pedro's.
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stands for walks, hits per inning pitched. and em all up and divide by innings pitched.
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Left on Base...you idiots...if you don't know the answer, don't try and answer with things like:\n"basically a gentle underhanded toss."\n"A really slow high arc throw"\n"The act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc"\n"a toss ormaybe it's a soft hit?"\n"To throw like a softball pitch. Ball archs above batters head on the way to the plate" - especially this one...try to answer it (which is incorrect) and then explain your incorrect answer...wow...\n"Underhanded throw which is weak. Don't confuse it with the underhand throws from a girls softball leauge. Those are FAST!!!!" - and this one...\n"A lob is a ball tossed to another person usually in a high arc."\n"A POP FLY IN THE INFIELD I THINK"\n\nGLAD I COULD HELP :)
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Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball fielding position between second and third base. Shortstop is often regarded as the most dynamic defensive position in baseball, because there are more right-handed hitters in baseball than left-handed hitters, and most hitters have a tendency to pull the ball slightly, so more balls go to the shortstop than any other position. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the shortstop is assigned the number 6.\n\nShortstops are required to cover second base in double play situations when the ball is hit to the second baseman, first baseman, pitcher, or catcher. They often cover second when a runner is attempting a stolen base. They also must cover third at various times, including the rotation play; that is, when there are runners on first and second and a sacrifice bunt is attempted. Shortstops generally are given precedence on catching pop-ups in the infield as well, so they end up calling off other players many times, although on deep pop-ups they fall back when called off by an outfielder.\n\nTraditionally, players are selected as shortstops for their fielding prowess, but in recent years more shortstops with excellent hitting have entered the leagues as well.
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Baseball is about intimidation.  The pitcher tries to stare down the hitter and vice versa.  When the batter has been bested, the look back it, pitcher- you may have won this time, but next time you won't.
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Roosevelt.\n\nyankees.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nyy/baseball_basics/nyy_basics_batter.jsp
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pitcher - can mean a vessle for holding liquid such as water or tea and it can mean a position in baseball.
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Makes you wonder, doesn't it? But there's actually a simple explanation.\n\nFrom Neil Cohen's article "How to Score a Game," from John Thorn and Pete Palmer's Total Baseball, we discover that Henry Chadwick, one of the first newspaper journalists to take a literary interest in baseball, built upon a scoring technique devised by fellow New York journalist M. J. Kelly. "Chadwick created a minutely detailed scorecard so he would have a point of reference and recollection when he wrote his articles about the game," Cohen writes. He adds that Chadwick invented the modern boxscore.\n\nChadwick also invented the system we use to indicate fielders (pitcher=1, shortstop=6, right field=9, etc.), and the abbreviations we use for events (HR, HBP, BB, so on). Chadwick needed S for sacrifice, so he chose K for strikeout - K being the last letter of "struck," which was then in more common use than the term "strikeout." \n\nSome people carry it further, using a K for a swinging strikeout, and a backward K for being caught looking. Some folks go with the more intuitive "SO," but this creates confusion with the abbreviation for "shutout," so "K" has remained the abbreviation of choice.
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There really are no standardized rules for the pitching machine. They are local adaptations of established rules.\n\nMost would have the ball become dead, batter is awarded first base, and all runners advance one base(although some advance the runners only if forced).
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typically a baseball is smooth.  sometimes it is slippery and difficult to grab and spin it as pitchers do.  A ball is scuffed where there is a rough patch on it where you can grip it better.  Its very similar to your leather shoes when the outer part gets scratched.