Talk:Softball

An alien attempts to understand...

All's well, in fact seems just like baseball, until this sentence: "The batter attempts to put the ball in play in such a way that he/she is able to reach base without being put out, which can occur in a variety of ways as well, including exceeding the number of prescribed good pitches." So how is one 'put out?' 'In a variety of ways as well' is no help. Where do the prescribed 'good pitches' fit in? (It's an unfortunate coincidence that, to a cricket fan, 'good pitches' refers to the state of the ground.) Ro Thorpe 23:51, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

And I, myself, don't know what is meant by "exceeding the number of prescribed good pitches". The batter exceeds them? In what way? The pitcher exceeds them? In what way? I know that different versions of softball have various rules about the pitches, and I'm not an expert on softball, but I did play on an official league team a few years ago (as the pitcher, actually) and I'm not familiar with what you mean -- as far as I recall, the rules had three strikes and four balls, just like baseball, and that was it. And if I arced the ball too high, even if it went down through the strike zone, it was still called a ball....) Hayford Peirce 00:06, 2 July 2009 (UTC)