Clusters
- Ball Sports
Founding Member, IWGA Member Federation 1980-1989 / since 2011.
Learn more about Softball on the WBSC website and YouTube.
Baseball - Softball
Discipline at The World Games 2025: Softball
Softball is a popular game similar to Baseball, but played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball games move at a faster pace since the field dimensions are smaller. At The World Games 2025 there are Softball tournaments for both women and men.
A Softball game takes place over seven innings. Each innings is divided into a top half, in which the away team bats and tries to score runs (attack), while the home team occupies the field and tries to record three outs (defence); then a bottom half, when the teams' roles are reversed.
Each inning consists of the attacking team sending a batter to home plate to try to hit the pitch from the pitcher (defence). Unlike Baseball, pitchers throw underhand from flat ground in Softball. The batter, after hitting the ball fairly into the field of play, must advance around four bases to score a run, as in Baseball.
The object of the game is to score more runs than the other team. The score counts all runs after seven innings in total. Extra innings are played if a game is tied after seven innings.
Federation: World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), www.wbsc.org
