Use the passage below to answer the question "Baseball Bores Me" by Sam Hughes

Baseball is rather surprisingly known as "America's Favorite Pastime." It is a rather boring sport played between two teams of nine players. As silliness would have it, the players use a wooden or metal bat to hit a ball around a diamond-shaped playing field. At each of the points of the diamond is a marker, called a base. Home base is where the batter stands. Players from the opposing team are positioned at the other bases: first, second, and third. A batter scores a run by hitting the ball and running around the bases before members of the other team can tag him with the ball. The batter must run counter-clockwise around all of the bases and back to home to get a point. This might sound exciting, but it's not.

If you saw the italicized sentence in an essay, would it constitute plagiarism?

Baseball is surprisingly known as "/America's Favorite Pastime./" But don't worry because football is hot on its heels in the race for the title.

Yes. It uses the original author's words but does not include quotes or a citation.
No. It uses the author's original words but significantly changes their meaning.
It is actually an example of summarizing rather than plagiarizing
It is actually an example of paraphrasing rather than plagiarizing.

(the sentence in // is italicized)