In baseball, a battedball can be called one of several various things, depending on how it comes off the bat and where in the field it lands.
There are generally three descriptive categories for balls hit in the air. A fly ball or simply fly is a ball that is hit into the air, usually very high. Fielders attempt to catch fly balls on their descent. Secondly, A pop fly or pop-up is a specific type of fly ball that goes very high and does not travel very long. From the perspective of the fielder, popups seem to come straight down.
The third type of ball hit in the air is a line drive or a liner. This is a sharply hit, low-flying batted ball. The threshold between a line drive and a fly ball is subjective; liners tend to not visibly arc up and then down.
A ground ball or grounder is a batted ball which rolls or bounces on the ground in the infield. Bunts are generally not considered to be ground balls; they are a distinct type of batted ball.
A foul tip, a very different type of batted ball, is a ball tipped off the bat which goes straight to the catcher's glove and is caught.
See the list of baseball jargon for other less technical names for various types of batted balls.
It is distinguished from a ground ball, which bounces or rolls towards the outfield, and a line drive, which is hit with a straight trajectory.
A flyball that is caught before it hits the ground is an out, and most flyballs, except for those that are hit to the deepest part of the outfield or in the gap between two outfielders, are relatively easy to field, as players have time to position themselves where the ball will land.
Flyballs are usually the result of a batter hitting the bottom part of a pitched ball, or using an uppercut swing (as a way of producing extra power, for example).
A flyball or simply fly is a ball that is hit to the outfield in the air, usually very high.
A ground ball or grounder is a battedball that rolls or bounces on the ground in the infield.
Bunts are generally not considered to be ground balls; they are a distinct type of battedball, where the batter, in effect, tries to 'block' the ball with the bat held steady, rather than taking a full swing.
Feeds |
Contact