A baseball game

A group of Major League baseball players were in an old snack bar in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, a town of about a thousand people in rural southwest Arkansas, and one of them introduced Rock to a baseball game in the bar's game room.
It appeared to Rock as a hybrid between baseball and a video game. A real batter would face a real pitcher, separated by about five feet, and attempt to hit the ball against a wall a foot or so behind.
Rock assumed hits were judged by their velocity and where they hit the wall, but after several games he noticed that all of the other batters were running to bases designated by red lights on the wall. There were defensive players spread about the small space, fielding hits and rushing toward the lights.
"I'm not sure why it took me so long to figure that out," Rock told his old friend Walt in an attempt to explain his terrible batting average.
Rock said he thought the game would work similar to an old one he had played in the same bar as a sixth-grader back in 1971. He remembered the machine as the first electronic game he had played. It was built like a pinball machine, with a small brown bat in place of paddles and a shiny, silver pinball that would roll down a ramp from a pitchers mound.