Worth watching for non-sports fans?
I've never seen a baseball game in my life.
sure. the movie really just uses baseball, or rather the love of the game, as an impetus for a man doing some soul searching and deals with various themes of family relationships and faith and what not. a lot of baseball names and terminology get thrown around, but you don't need to know any history of the game to grasp the significance of what's going on. it's a really great movie.
share>a lot of baseball names and terminology get thrown around
Like inning? I don't even know what that is.
You don't need to know any sports terms, including inning. But if you're actually interested in what an inning is, it's a "time" period of sorts.
Baseball doesn't use a clock, so each team has 9 times or *possessions to score a run(s) before making three "outs". Each of the nine frames is called an inning.
*Possession: Baseball is unique where the defense has possession of the ball.
Absolutely see it.
The movie is about relationships and a journey they all go on emotionally. Baseball itself is a backdrop to the characters.
Anyway, "INNING" I don't know the linguistic origin of that word but it basically means each team gets to bat 1 time....both the visiting team and then the home team. That is one "inning". So when the visiting team comes up to bat that is the "top" of the inning. The home team will pitch the ball and play defense until they get 3 outs on the other team and then they switch, the home team comes up and gets their turn to bat. That is the "bottom" of the inning.
A game is 9 innings long so each team gets to bat 9 times and each team gets to pitch and play defense nine times. The exceptions are, if the home team is winning, the game ends after the top of the ninth inning when they get three outs on the visiting team. Since the visiting team is behind after they've had their nine at bats it is pointless to play the bottom of the ninth because the home team has already won. If the game is tied or the home team is trailing the bottom of the ninth is played. Also, if the game ends after nine full innings with the game still tied the play "extra innings" beginning with the top of the 10th inning and they play until someone has a lead after an inning. Some extra inning games go only until the 10th but there have been some really long games that have gone on for 15 to 20 innings.