For more examples, click here.

Strikeout

If the count has two strikes when a pitch comes in, and that pitch winds up as a strike, the result is a strikeout. This is true no matter how the strike was recorded. If the batter did not swing, it's called a “strikeout looking,” If they did swing, it's called a “strikeout swinging,” and that includes strikeouts on foul tips. A strikeout collected on a foul bunt is its own category, but it doesn’t have a special name¹. Same with a strikeout that is awarded as the result of an automatic strike— that is, a strike called because the batter violated the pitch timer policy.

As the term "strike out" might imply, a batter who strikes out is, in fact, out. But of course, there's an exception: if the pitch was not caught cleanly; this opens you up to the possibility of a “wild pitch” coming into play, which in turn means that a strikeout may not actually result in an out.