Baseball is a lonely game. Which is odd for a team sport.
It’s not like other lonely sports like golf or rally racing, where your performance is measured against some opponent you can’t see. Instead, it is a fundamentally confrontational sport, made up of a series of 1v1 encounters. The experience of playing baseball is similar to the experience of team fencing. You stand off to the side and wait your turn. There’s not a very much direct cooperation between teammates.
And so, a team sport where there are at least 10 players on the field at any given time feels lonely.