Batting Champs, Chloe Mertes

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Across
  1. 3. a type of curveball
  2. 6. a pre-1900 rule that a ball was fair even if it rolled foul before reaching first base
  3. 8. the base slide invented by Ty Cobb
  4. 11. a ball that passes through any part of the strike zone in baseball
  5. 12. a pitch thrown with the knuckles only
Down
  1. 1. a pitch thrown as hard as possible into the strike zone
  2. 2. a pitch that curves before reaching the plate
  3. 4. when somebody goes up to the home plate
  4. 5. a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
  5. 7. each baseball team has one of these
  6. 9. an illegal pitch; the pitcher puts grease or spits on the ball to make it harder to hit
  7. 10. what the pitchers throw