My stepdad is a big baseball fan. We’re watching the World Series, and he keeps mentioning the player’s batting average. I have never played, watched, or learned about baseball in my life, so Google and my stepdad was tricky (they used more baseball terms to explain that I don’t know). I want to be able to keep up with what he’s saying, so could someone please explain it to me? Thank you 🙂 (Also, explanations on what a player would have to do to get the particular ranges [???] for said average would be appreciated as well!!)
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It’s a percentage score how many hits a player has vs. how many times they get out. If a player has three at bats, they get one hit and get two outs, then they have an average of .333 for that game. Walks don’t factor in to the average, neither do some other plays like errors and sacrifices (I’m sure there are others, but I can’t think of them right now). So, if the players has four at bats, hits once, walks once, and gets out twice, that is still an average of .333.
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