Charging the mound etiquette, not to mention dangerous, for the batter to charge the mound with a bat). Though serious injuries have occurred from charging in the past, usually fights are either broken up or joined by all other players so the conflict turns into posturing and name-calling; in baseball parlance, this is known as a rhubarb. Charging the mound is typically about responding to an indignity rather than an attempt to injure the pitcher. There is long-standing etiquette in baseball regarding what is an acceptable offense to warrant a beaning, and there are similar "unwritten rules" for charging in response to being
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