Learning baseball

Misc Questions
Hello, it's been a while since I've came here. I'm the french and fond of baseball guy who got a lot a questions. I'm gonna ask the baseball pros, fans and others to have a look at my new questions, and I promise I will delete each question as soon as its answer will be given - and in the end this topic of the discussion page. (I suscribed to cable television to watch NASN (kind of ESPN's connect) so I'm more than ever concerned about my favorite sport, and that's how I came to these new questions). Can someone tell me, or give me a link to a good article, about Catcher's code ? (really hard for a foreigner)


 * Do you mean the catcher's signs? The catcher will give signals, called "signs", to the pitcher to suggest certain pitches.  It is usually one finger for the fastball, 2 for the curveball, 3 for the changeup and 4 for the slider, but the catcher may use other, more complicated signs, as well as false signs to disguise their intent from a runner on second base. --PSzalapski 22:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Can someone tell me, or give me a link to a good article, about the Player's Stats Board, I mean the one which displays all the inings through the game with, under each ining where he batted, some complex indications like F8, SB2, and so on (I forgot the real examples so I'm just kind of guessing).
 * Sounds like the Boxscore (baseball). Baseball statistics will help as well. --PSzalapski 22:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Can someone tell me, or give me a link to a good article, about bases-coachmen' code ? (sorry, I don't know the term, I mean the guys who shout "run" or "stop" and who give and receives these mysterious signals to and from the main coach, with arms, ankles, nose and so on)
 * These are base coaches. A third-base coach will give many signs to the batter, directing him to take a pitch, bunt, swing normally, swing for a hit and run, etc.  These are very well disguised and you will never be able to decode them. PSzalapski 22:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Can someone tell me why a pitcher who's got a 2.0-like home era can have a 15.0-like road era ?
 * See Home field advantage. One way is to pitch five innings at home and give up one run, and then pitch four innings on the road and give up seven runs.  In other words, a sample size of two games can give you strange statistics.  This is extremely unlikely for a large sample size.  After that pitcher pitches in several more games, his home and road ERA will be closer to each other.  PSzalapski 22:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Can someone tell me what the stats "0 for 2", "1 for 3" given when a player comes to bat mean ?
 * "hits for At bats". "0 for 2" means zero hits in two at-bats.  PSzalapski 22:01, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

I think that's all, thank you for reading and maybe answering. Once again, about language, please excuse my... english, let's say ! Goodbye. Hem. (oops, forgot how to sign wiki-ly.
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