Mi reporte de Actifict: diciembre 1 2022. 🥎LET'S TALK ABOUT BASEBALL5

luismas79 (38)in Actifit • 2 years ago

This week, although all eyes are on Qatar 2022, I will settle an outstanding debt with the Cuban baseball5, which conquered the top in the first World Cup of the discipline, held in the capital of Mexico during the first days of November.

This sport comes from the four corners modality, but as such it is baseball5, with regulations and special ways of practicing.

The modality has had a very rapid spread because it is mixed and because with only a rubber ball you can already practice it, starting from the basic fundamentals of baseball.

In baseball5 you have to be very offensive to score runs. There are neither the home run nor the extra bases, you have to achieve several jit connections to get to the home play.

“Another of the differences from traditional baseball is that it is a field with a distance of 21 by 21. There are fences. Therefore, the ball is always kept inside the box.

"And then it is difficult to reach two bases, unless there is some action with a missed throw that allows runners to advance.

“That's why you have to build the runs on offense, while on defense you have to allow as few jit connections as possible, in addition to billing the outs on the most advanced bases when the runners are on the pads.

“In this game, regardless of which distances are shorter, the fundamentals of baseball are maintained. In what is the run, the fielding, the hitting (or better, the hitting, because in this case there is no hitting, it is hit with the hand).

"Now, the differences are that there is neither a pitcher nor a catcher. It all starts with the offensive player who must perform the mechanics of hitting the ball in a batting box that measures three by three.

“From there the dynamics of the game arise. You run the same, counterclockwise, and the basic fundamentals of baseball are maintained.

"Regarding the fly, the air connection is not valid as long as the defense does not make contact with it. If the hit is from the air and the defense does not touch the ball, goes straight to the fence or goes over it, it is out by rule. Here the first contact with the ground is what is valid.

"If the player hits outside the first or third base lines, he is automatically out by rule.

“There is a special rule that baseball does not have, which is the case of the first baseman. The initial is double to protect the integrity of the player, but there is an area that measures 1.50 m, which is the safe zone of the runner. It's not like it happens in baseball that on the first pick you make your run and stop it until you can.

“Here you have to stop the run once you step into that 1.50 m zone. If you go over that zone, the defender notices and touches you, it's out by rule. This is done to decrease the speed of the runner's translation and that there is a possibility of an out between the bases.

"As similarities, we have that it is three outs, but, unlike baseball, it is played to five innings and the one who scores the most runs wins.

“There are other rules of the sport itself. For example, in the batter's box the batter should not step on the lines. There is an area in front of the homeplay that measures 4.5 m where the ball should not sting; that is, it has to do it after that line. Anyway, they are specific ways that only the 5 baseball practitioner knows and plays.

“Each game lasts five innings and an inning ranges from 20 to 25 minutes. A match between two teams is three to win two, that is, a miniplayoff. He has a high physical preparation, but the tactical component is fundamental, because there are many plays. Baseball5 is competed with sets, very similar to volleyball.

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