Infield it includes that area where the all-important duel between the pitcher and batter takes place. The pitcher stands on the pitcher's mound (a raised mound of dirt located at the center of the infield) and from there he pitches the ball to his catcher, who is crouched behind home plate sixty feet, six inches away at what might be called the cutlet of the diamond-shaped baseball field. To the left and right of the catcher are chalk boxes in the dirt called batter's boxes. The opposing team's batter must stand in one of the two boxes and from there he
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