0 (in baseball) a play in which a player hits the ball and successfully reaches first base
1 (in baseball) a play in which a player hits the ball and successfully reaches the first base
A steal is made when a base-runner gets from one base to another without the assistance of a base hit or an error.
Another base hit would have won for New York, but Meyers perished on a hard hit to Wagner, which was fielded to first ahead of the batter.
His greatest fault was that he would not run out on a base hit, but on the contrary would walk to his base.
Should he make more than one base hit, the player on the base advances as many bases as the batter has made.
He started off the season hot at the plate and had a base hit in each of his first 37 games.
That season, he had the distinction of recording at least one base hit in each of his first five major league games.
A base hit that ends up with the hitter on first base.
