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The first modern baseball game ended in a 23-1 blowout
The first officially recorded baseball game under modern rules ended 23-1 in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Played in Hoboken, the contest pitted the New York Nine against the New York Knickerbockers, with the Nine winning by a lopsided margin. Baseball pits two teams of nine players who alternate between batting and fielding across a series of plays.
Each play starts when the pitcher throws a ball that the batter tries to strike with a bat. The hitting side aims to drive the ball into open field and send runners around the bases.
That early lopsided result launched a sport now woven into American life.
Why it mattersIt marks the documented birth of a game that grew into one of the world's most popular team sports.
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