explain going to a baseball game to someone from the UK

yah it makes total sense - you're rejigging the line-up to put as much distance btw your pitcher and having to bat as possible

the two substitutions don't technically happen simultaneously. so you can first take out the pitcher and put the position player in his spot, and then take out the other position player and put in the pitcher. it may happen at the same time on the lineup card, but that doesn't matter until either a) the NEW pitcher's spot comes up because the inning continues or b) the inning ends and someone needs to pitch the next inning.

^^^^ this is basically what I was looking for

so, yes, it is all effectively instantaneous, but that's the order I was looking for.

order of operations cf. maths.

https://i.redd.it/1zu5qfagdlh71.jpg

incredible comeback as the herts falcons improved to 1-23 on the season. they've been outscored 351-98

Can we have that in English please?

lmaooo

i know some of those guys

A Dead Armed Pitcher is Not Yet a Man

The path of a pitched baseball 
can be curv    or sl
           ing      urv
                       ing
          t
narrow or a  
          l
          l
cutt        n
    ing or k u                    arc's
              ckl              the      f
                 ing      bends         a
                 the wind               l
                                        l
sli
   ding or drop
               p
                ing 
    like a sick stomach
    having just reached the top
    of a rollercoaster ride that screams like a rocket 
until the bottom falls out of it and comes to the most sudden
                                                         stop

Instead of throwing the ball like any of that
I throw it right down the middle
as hard as I can
My ass is handed to me in front of an audience

I grunt when I throw because they asked me to
because if I don’t they’ll ask why I didn’t
because they thought it would add a couple miles per hour
to my cartoonishly slow and extremely hittable deliveries
The other kid grunts back as he slaps a loud smack
The crowd roars because our team is away and they are safe at home
We’re 13 years old, I sucked
I got roughed up on the usual
but our team had no reliable bullpen
so they left me in to soak up the remaining innings
until the 10-run rule arrived, the rule of mercy

x-posting here because it's for baseball nerds

and also to help explain baseball to only people in the UK