Olympics 2008 - Baseball
Baseball-Beijing Games venue struck out by shopping mall
BEIJING, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Hopes that Beijing's Olympic baseball venue would be preserved for the future development of the sport in China have been dashed as the stadium's developer revealed it would be dismantled and replaced by a shopping mall. Full Article
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| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Baseball | * | * |
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* To be determined
The Game
Baseball became a full medal sport in Barcelona in 1992. The game is played between two teams of nine players, taking turns batting and fielding. The object is to score the most runs in nine innings. Batting ends when three of a team's batters have been ruled out.
pitching and batting
