baseball, pocket-billiards game, named for the similarity in its scoring system to the American game played with bat and ball, in which players attempt to score runs by pocketing 21 consecutively numbered object balls, the number of runs scored corresponding to the total of the numbers on the balls pocketed. Players are allowed nine innings, in each of which they play until they foul or fail to score. After the first (break) shot, players must call both the ball and the pocket aimed for before each shot. If a player sinks all the balls on the table before nine innings are completed, the balls are racked and that player’s turn continues. Fouls and penalties in billiard baseball are, for the most part, the same as for pocket billiards.