How To Play
Softball is a very simple sport once you get the hang of it. It is basically the same sport as baseball, except the pitching is different, there are only girls on the teams, and you use a different ball. Normally, the visiting team, which is the team that is not playing at their home field, gets to bat first. When you are batting, you get three chances to hit the ball, and if you hit it, you have to run to first base without getting tagged with the ball, and before the base gets stepped on with the person holding the ball. If the pitchers pitches you four balls that are not in the strike zone, which is shoulders to knees, you get to walk to first base without getting out. After the team on the field gets three outs, the teams switch out, making the team that batted first playing on the field, and making the fielding team now up to bat. If your team is on the field, there are several ways to get a batter out. If the batter hits a ball in the air, and someone on your team catches the ball, the batter is out. If the batter hits the ball on the ground to someone on your team, that person can pick the ball up and tag a batter that is off of the base they were on before the ball was hit, or if no one is on the base, that person can throw the ball to the first baseman, who would then tag the person or base the runner was running towards.
Positions
In softball, there are nine positions that are played on the field, pitcher, catcher, 1st baseman, 2nd baseman, 3rd baseman, shortstop, left field, center field, and right field. The pitcher pitches the ball to the batter and the catcher catches the balls that the batter doesn't hit. The 1st baseman is in charge of getting the players running to first base out, the 2nd baseman is in charge of getting the players running to second base out and so on while the shortstop is in charge of both third and second base depending on where the ball is hit. If the ball is hit to the right side of the field, the shortstop covers second base, but if the ball is hit to the left side of the field, the shortstop covers third base. The left fielder backs up the third baseman, the center fielder backs up second base, and right fielder backs up first base.