Brown, 10, could be one of the stories of the Games in the skateboarding PETER BYRNE/PABASEBALL/SOFTBALLWhy it’s in Unlike the other “new” sports, baseball and softball have appeared at previous Olympics, but were discontinued after the 2008 Games. Their return owes largely to their huge popularity in Japan. How it will work Men compete in baseball, while women compete in softball — a game with a larger ball, smaller field and underarm pitching. In softball, there is a single round-robin group featuring all six teams: the top two advance to the gold-medal game. The baseball format is more complicated, but consists of a group stage with two pools of three teams, in which no one is eliminated, before a knockout stage where most teams get a second chance after a defeat.

Source: The Times July 23, 2019 23:02 UTC