Baseball

Baseball

A database of terms that relate to the sport of baseball, a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a 90-foot diamond.

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suicide squeeze

Sports; Baseball

This is when a batter bunts the ball with a runner on third base and the runner is able to run home and score without being tagged out. The runner starts for home plate as soon as the ball is ...

suspended game

Sports; Baseball

A game that can't be played or finished and which will be completed at a later date.

tagging up

Sports; Baseball

This is when a base runner waits for an outfielder to catch a fly ball and then leaves the base he is standing on to move to the next base. The base runner can't leave the base he is standing on ...