BASEBALL

1. How many outs are there in an inning?
2. What is the difference between a no-hitter and a perfect game?
3. What is the fewest number of pitches that can be thrown in a nine-inning game?
4. During a nine-inning baseball game, the home team scored two runs per inning and the visiting team scored one run per inning. What was the final score?

Many common expressions use a baseball metaphor. For example, to fail at something is to strike out. Try these:

5. Beginning immediately
6. Fail to make any progress
7. Unsound or erroneous position
8. Extremely unsound or erroneous position
9. Support someone's position
10. Step in for someone and do their job
11. Attend to all the details
12. To be at a decided disadvantage
13. Amateur
14. Desperate situation
15. Abbot and Costello routine
16. Yogi Berra's advice on not giving up

Answers:

1. Six
2. In a perfect game there are no walks. The pitcher faces, and retires, 27 batters.
3. 52
4. 16 to 9. The visiting team always bats first. If the visitng team is behind after batting in the ninth inning, the home team doesn't bat in that inning.

5. Right off the bat
6. Can't get to first base
7. Off base
8. Out in left field
9. Go to bat for
10. Pinch hit
11. Touch all the bases
12. Two strikes against you
13. Bush leaguer
14. Two out and the bottom of the ninth
15. Who's on first?
16. "It ain't over till it's over."