Wortschatzarbeit: Baseball

Match the  following baseball terms with their meaning:

1. batter
2. breaking ball
3. base
4. home run
5. inning
6. Major League
7. strikeout
8. World Series
9. strike
10. cleats

a) one of the nine periods played in a baseball game

b) the best professional league in baseball

c) shoes with spikes at the bottom

d) when a player hits a ball outside of the field or when he hits the ball and can run around all of the bases before the ball is thrown to home plate

e) when a player tries to hit the ball but misses

f) the square white area that a player has to touch to be safe

g) the playoffs

h) the player trying to hit the ball

i) a baseball thrown in a way that it flies in a curve

Answers:

1 ___ ,     2 ___ ,     3 ___ ,     4 ___ ,     5 ___ ,     6 ___ ,     7 ___ ,     8 ___ ,     9 ___ ,     10 ___