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(US, baseball) Double-A: the second-highest level of play in Minor League Baseball after Triple-A (AAA).
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(US, baseball, dated, 19th century) A run.
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(baseball, slang, obsolete) The ball in baseball.
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(baseball, following the noun modified) Out.
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(baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
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(baseball) A baseball team.
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A small baseball park conducive to scoring home runs.
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(obsolete, 1800s) baseball
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A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
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A playing field on which the game of baseball is played.
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Synonym of baseball mitt
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The jargon associated with the sport of baseball.
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(informal) A fight that breaks out at a baseball game.
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(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
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To knock an object, usually a ball, away from oneself.
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(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).
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(informal) batteries (power cells)
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(chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.
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(baseball) A pitch deliberately thrown at the head of the batter.
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(slang, baseball) Synonym of blooper
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(baseball) A bobbled ball.
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(cricket) A series of deliveries at an unguarded wicket at the end of a non-first-class cricket match, used to decide the winner of a drawn match.
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A game resembling baseball and rounders, played primarily in Wales and Merseyside. The bat has a flat striking surface and the ball is thrown underarm.
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(baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
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(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
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(countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
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Alternative form of centerfielder [(baseball) A player in the centerfield position.]
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(transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
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(baseball, intransitive) To hold the bat higher (farther from the knob) than is normal.
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(baseball) A high-bouncing batted ball.
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(baseball, pitching) To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
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(baseball, slang) A complete game.
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(transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
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(by extension, chiefly US) An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier.
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(baseball) The period between around 1900 and 1919, characterized by low scoring games with few home runs.
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(colloquial) A person who is asked to substitute for another in handling a portion of a task for which the other is less capable.
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Alternative form of double play [(baseball, softball) A defensive play in which two outs are recorded.]
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(baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
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(baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
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(baseball) To eject a player or manager from the game.
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Alternative form of ground ball [(baseball) A batted ball that bounces one or more times on the infield; a grounder.]
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(ball games) In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.
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(US, informal) Scoring the most hits.
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(baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field
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(baseball, attributive) The baseball off-season where trades take place and teams look to sign free agents.
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The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve.
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Alternative form of left fielder [(baseball) The outfield defensive player that stands to the left of the center fielder as viewed from home plate.]
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(baseball) The period after about 1919, following the dead-ball era.
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One who throws or hits/kicks a ball in a high arc.
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(sports) The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
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(baseball) Initialism of middle infielder. [(baseball) A player whose fielding position is in the middle infield (the second baseman and shortstop).]
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Alternative letter-case form of Moneyball [(baseball) Baseball management relying on sabermetrics.]
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(informal, US, sports) A 2010 controversy in which Ken Griffey, Jr., of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners, was reported to have been asleep in the clubhouse during a game.
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(cricket) the batsman standing at the bowler's end of the pitch
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(transitive, baseball) To fail to tender a contract to (a player).
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(obsolete baseball slang) A ball.
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A game related to baseball and softball, but requiring only three players per team.
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(baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.
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(archaic, baseball slang) A baseball.
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(baseball, softball) An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball or softball.
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(transitive, baseball) To strike (the ball) very hard.
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(baseball) To throw an off-speed pitch, a change up, to cause the hitter to swing early and miss.
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(sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
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(cricket) An attacking ring of infielders, square and in front of the wicket - point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket, square leg.
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(US, baseball, slang) A mistake.
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(countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.
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Alternative form of sabermetrics [(US) The analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics.]
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(baseball) A sacrifice fly, a fly out which allows a runner to advance a base.
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(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
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(baseball, slang, 1800s) A high fly ball
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(intransitive, baseball) To drop down and skid into a base.
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(transitive, baseball, by extension) To hit a ball very hard.
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(slang) A baseball strategy that relies on baserunning, singles, and hitting for average rather than hitting home runs.
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(baseball) A style of play that scores a large number of runs, one base at a time.
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(by analogy) A question designed to be easy to answer.
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(baseball, countable) A fastball.
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(US, baseball) A pitcher that throws with an underhand motion.
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(baseball, idiomatic) To swing and miss at a pitch.
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(transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
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(baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
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simple past tense of take a pitch
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(baseball) Catcher's equipment
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(baseball) The phenomenon by which the baseball "jumps" off the bat at contact.
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(baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.
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(intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.
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(baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
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(uncountable) Synonym of scrub baseball
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