In A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri. Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a player called a pitcher and hit with a bat. Scoring involves running and touching markers on the ground called bases. The ball... baseball, a fielder's choice is the act of a fielder, upon fielding a batted ball, choosing to try put out one runner while in so doing allowing the batter to advance to first base.

Example: With a runner on first, the batter hits a ground ball to the shortstop. Instead of throwing the batter out at first, the shortstop chooses to throw to second base, making the runner out. The runner is called out, but meanwhile, the batter reaches first base safely. This play is a fielder's choice.

A batter who reaches base safely as the result of a fielder's choice is not credited with a In baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H), sometimes called a base hit, is credited to a batter when he safely reaches first base after batting the ball into fair territory, without the benefit of an error or a fielders choice. To do this, the batter must reach first... hit; he is charged with an out as if he had been put out himself.