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Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat.

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The official news source of Major League Baseball including scores, standings, stats, trade rumors, injuries, game recaps, press releases and more.

Complete source for baseball history including complete major league player, team, and league stats, awards, records, leaders, rookies and scores.

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The official schedule of Major League Baseball including probable pitchers, Gameday, ticket and postseason information.

The complete 2025 MLB season schedule on ESPN. Includes game times, TV listings and ticket information for all MLB games.

MLB is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional baseball league in the world. Each team plays 162 games per season, with Opening Day traditionally held during the first week of April.