Baseball rules the winner. This is known as a walk-off. The basic contest is always between the "pitcher" for the fielding team, and a "batter". The pitcher throws—"pitches"—the ball towards home plate, where the "catcher" for the fielding team waits (in a crouched stance) to receive it. Behind the catcher stands the home plate umpire. The batter stands in one of the batter's boxes and tries to hit the ball with a bat. The pitcher must keep one foot in contact with the top or front of the pitcher's rubber — a 24×6 in (61×15 cm) plate located atop the pitcher's mound
Ground ball/fly ball ratio Ground ball/fly ball ratio In baseball statistics, ground ball-fly ball ratio (denoted by G/F or GB/FB) is a measure of: The related statistic of ground outs-fly outs ratio (denoted by GO/AO), is a measure of: A statistic in baseball that compares the number of "ground outs" (ground ball hits that lead to an out for the batter) to "air outs" (fly balls that lead to an out for the batter), which determines the mix of fielded out types for both batters and pitchers. For each ground out (GO) and air out (AO), both the batter put out and the pitcher