The importance of having home and away teams and what's their pros and cons

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Published on Wednesday, 03 August 2011 14:07

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According to the rules of MLB of the two teams playing in any tournament, one is the home team and one team is deemed the visitor. It is the privilege of the visiting team to bat first (top of innings) and the home team does the fielding. The batting team is also referred to as offense team and their main aim is to score runs.

The home team is called defense team and it is their duty to prevent the offense team from scoring runs. To score runs the players of the offense team have to stand on the base, hit the ball thrown by the defense team, run to the other bases in a particular order crossing the home plate before making the 3rd out. After 3 outs it is the end of one inning and the second inning is started by switching the teams that is the home team will now play offense and try to score runs while the visiting team will play defense preventing them from doing so. At the end of both the innings the team with the highest score is declared winners.

But the main action in a game of baseball held regularly by MLB lies between the batter and the pitcher.

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