(August 2016) The 5th Wave is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Rick Yancey, published in 2013, and is the first installment in The 5th Wave trilogy. Critics have compared the book favorably to The Hunger Games and The Road, and noted that it should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires..
Formula. The batting average is calculated in the following way: Batting Average = Total number of hits / Total number of at bats. For example, if a player has 200 at-bats, and has 70 hits, then his Batting Average is 70 / 200 = 0.350.
Marcus Thames of the Detroit Tigers making contact with the baseball while batting in a game on April 29, 2007 against the Minnesota Twins. In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner, drive runners home, or advance runners along the bases for others to drive home, but the techniques and strategies they use to do so vary. Hitting uses a motion that is virtually unique to baseball, one that is rarely used in other sports.