Beisbol en Español (And in Other Languages)

Haha I guess I do somewhat, although I'm not that into baseball.

actually fbaezer we do, but only in slang And it does have sense actually, well, in slang again...
"kurvinski" which comes from "kurva" would be something like doing something unexpected and mean
Generally, for pitches we use english terms.

Baseball auf Deutsch (many of the terms have been adopted verbatim from the English)

The field - Spielfeld
The diamond - Viereck
Home - Home Plate
The pitching mound - Pitcher's Mound
Batting box - Schlagraum
On-Deck circle - ?
Infield - das Innenfeld
First base - Erste Base
Second base - Zweite Base
Third base - Dritte Base
Outfield - das Outfield
foul ground - Foul Territory
fair ground - Fair Territory

The positions. (The English terms are as common as the German equivalents)

Pitcher - der Werfer
Catcher - der Fänger
First baseman - Erster Baseman
Second Baseman - Zweiter Baseman
Short Stop - Shortstop
Third Baseman - Dritter Baseman
Outfielder - der Außenfeldspieler
batter - der Schläger or der Schlagmann
runner - der Läufer
Designed Hitter - Designated Hitter
Umpire - der Schiedsrichter
Home Team - Heimmannschaft

To give a sense of baseball rules in German, here is the Infield Fly Rule:

6.06: Ein Schlagmann ist aus, wenn ...
(l) ein Infielder, absichtlich einen ins Fair Territory geschlagenen Ball, den er bereits aus der Luft gefangen hatte, zu Boden fallen läßt, wenn bei weniger als zwei Aus das erste und das zweite oder das erste und das dritte oder das erste und das zweite und das dritte Base besetzt sind. Der Ball ist tot und all Läufer müssen zu ihren Ausgangsbases zurückkehren.

"Schiedsrichter" sure sound authoritative.
I'd rather argue with an umpire!

I was reading about the World Baseball Classic in Gazzetta dello Sport and found some Italian words for baseball.

"Monte di lancio" - throwing mound
"singolo", "doppio", "triplo" - single, double, triple
"fouricampo" (out of field) - home run
"frazione" (fraction) - inning
"esterni" (outsiders) - outfielders
(esterno centro, sinistro, destro) - centerfield, leftfield, outfied
"interni" (insiders) - infielders
"singolo interno" - infield single
"punto" (point) - run
"valida" (valid) - hit
"kappa" (K) - strikeout
"volata di sacrificio" - sacrifice fly
"eliminazione"- out

(couldn't find a word for short-stop; it's usually the strangest)

The Italians knocked off the Canadians in the WBC--to their shock and dismay. I think the American media tends not to pay much attention to the WBC, because the probability of an humiliation of the Americans is too great. Congratulations to Japan.

There was once an article about French baseball terms which i read during the years that MLB was in Montréal. I'm too lazy to go looking for a source, though.

Pitcher - le lanceur
Catcher - le receveur
First baseman - le premier-but
Second baseman - le deuxième-but
Third baseman - le troisième-but
Shortstop - l'arrêt-court (masc)
Left fielder, Center fielder, Right fielder - le voltigeur de gauche, le voltigeur de centre, le voltigeur de droite
Outfielder - le voltigeur
Designated hitter - le frappeur désigné or le frappeur de choix

French Baseball Glossary

Yeah, the fox and the grapes.

The US is to baseball what England is to soccer, minus the hooligans.
They invented the game, have by far the best league, the best club/teams, but can't gather a good national representative.

The difference is England really seems to want to win its international soccer matches.

The English fans sure do.
Don't know 'bout Beckham.

one of those classic a2k threads...great stuff....I'm revisiting the site

Just found this thread today -- seven years late!

fbaezer, I have been speaking Spanish for almost fifty years, and was married to an Argentine. I am a rabid fan of the 'Medias Rojas' (THAT name I DID know!)
However, I never learned Spanish baseball words.
(I never listened to baseball on Spanish language TV or Radio and never had many conversations about it with the handful Latino acquaintances I've had)

Thank you so much for this thread!

-jjorge

On ESPN they have three commentators in Spanish; one Dominican, one from Puerto Rico or Venezuela and another one Mexican, so all the accents can be heard.
Candy Maldonado is the Puertorican commentator, and he's sooo funny, he can't pronounce the "r"s at all. "El jaldinelo izquieldo", he says.

I used to have a Puerto Rican friend when I was in the Marines, a very nice guy -Ramon his name was.
He used to pronounce it 'Jamon' . :-)

Just came back from Montreal. I watched some baseball on French language TV, and came out with this:

Aaron Judge won the Compétition de Circuits (AKA Home Run Derby)
Circuit = home run

Innings are called manches.

Debut de la troisieme manche = top of the third inning

...then I remembered this old thread

What do they call the pitcher?

Felo Ramirez ,who has been doing play-by-play for seventy years calls the Florida Marlins games on Radio Mambi in Miami.
I listen in once in a while but can't follow the patter very well

lanzador

Le lanceur, the thrower.

Help me out...am I confused? I thought that was French?