Infield

In baseball, the diamond, as well as the area immediately beyond it, has both grass and dirt, in contrast to the more distant, usually grass-covered, outfield.

Sometimes it includes the catcher and pitcher who (as a tandem) are often referred to separately as the battery.

[citation needed] In baseball the physical infield is where most of the action in a baseball game occurs, as it includes that area where the all-important duel between the pitcher and batter takes place.

[1] The pitcher stands on the pitcher's mound (a raised mound of dirt located at the center of the infield) and from there he pitches the ball to his catcher, who is crouched behind home plate sixty feet, six inches away at what might be called the cutlet of the diamond-shaped baseball field.

The opposing team's batter must stand in one of the two boxes and from there he will attempt to hit the pitched ball with his bat.