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Hit (baseball)
Hitting the ball into fair territory and safely reaching base without an error or fielder's choice / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches or passes first base after hitting the ball into fair territory with neither the benefit of an error nor a fielder's choice.
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