Baseball Bats

There are two types of bat in baseball : one is aluminum bat and other is wooden bat. Because aluminum bat has repelling power, it is usually used among amateurs. It is prohibited to be used in professional leagues. In the league only wooden bats are allowed. And, among wooden bats, there are a lot of different kinds of it. Those kinds vary by wood type, weight, etc. However, there are still restrictions. For example, diameter cannot be longer than 2.75 inches and weight should be less than 1kg. Most of the times, professional players use bats that weigh between 900g and 1kg. Sometimes, when you use a lot or ball hits the narrow part of a bat, the bat might get broken.

Bullpen

What is bullpen? It is a small area that is similar to mound. (Mound is little hill where pitchers throw balls.) Bullpen's main purpose is to provide a safe place for relief pitchers to warm up. Pitchers have to warm up because it protects injuries and body to work out for pitching. The maximum number of pitchers that bullpen can hold is two. However, if there are empty spaces, hitters usually warm up at there, too. It is usually located next to dugout (place where coaches and players rest), but sometimes is also located in outfield.
(Dugout)

(Bullpen)

Types of hits

There are 4 types of hits in baseball. Those 4 types are a base hit, two base hit, three base hit, and home-run. All these determined by how many bases that the batter runs through. If the first bounce of hit is on far outfield, it usually becomes two base hit or more. And home-run is one of the famous terms used in baseball, even to people who isn't familiar with baseball. Home-run is when a batter runs through bases and be safe on home base. If a batter hits and the ball goes beyond the outfield and between foul lines, it is home-run. The batter doesn't have to run fast because there is no way that he is going to get out. However, there is other type of home-run, which is rare to see. It is 'inside the park home-run'. This occurs when a normal hit is made, but the batter runs and come back to home base safely. Mostly, the fastest batter in teams make few inside the park home-run.

Also, I'll throw a question to you. What if you made a base hit and ran to second base, but got out? (The answer is below the video)

This is a video of inside the park home-run.

The answer to the question is that the hit is still counted as a base hit, not two base hit, because he did make a hit. However, he still gets out.

Out Counts

There are many ways to increase out counts during baseball match. However, three common ways that batter can get out are strike out, fly ball out, and ground ball out. Strike out is simply getting another strike after two strikes. Ways to get strikes are swinging and missing ball or just letting the ball to pass through the strike zone. Making a foul ball will increase number of strikes unless the batter has two strikes. If a batter makes a foul ball after two strikes, nothing will change. Fly ball out occurs when a batter hits the ball and any of fielders catch the ball before it bounces on ground. Ground ball out is when the ball that a hitter hit bounces on the ground, but fielder throws the ball to 1st base and 1st baser catch it before the batter reaches the 1st base. When the ground ball is too fast, has good course, or has its first bounce in outfield, it usually becomes a hit.

This is the video of Stephens Strasburg making strike outs. He is one of the rookie players playing for Washington.