Definition:
scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter reaches 'home' safely in the same play. Typically a hit over the back fence (380 yards) or hitting the foul poles (300) without first touching the ground.
In little league (not majors) this can be achieved 'in-field' but usually always due to sleepy fielders, or errors in the out field.
And now for a spot more Reminiscing from our in-house historian Keith 'Dez' with another extract from his soon to be published memoirs "View from the Martian Dugout"
" Alas, I was never one to cause the scorers' ink to run out during one of my At Bats but I do recall probably the biggest home run I've seen.
We were up playing against Ceres when big hitting leftie, 'Butch' Viney, strode to the plate. Now, our pitcher wasn't afraid to throw some heat and that's exactly what he did.
Unfortunately, he happened to put it right in the middle of Butch's hitting zone, which Butch promptly dispatched straight over right field's head, one third of the way up one of the pine trees behind the ground .
As Butch started his jog around the bases and virtually everyone at the ground watched the ball slowly trickle through the branches back to terra firma, our pitcher, who hadn't so much as taken a glance at the result, strolled up to the plate umpire and in a meek, inquisitive voice asked of the ump, "two bases?"