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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fall off the table

Sports; Baseball

A phrase used to describe a pitch that looks like it is going to be a strike, but at the last second drops into the dirt. The phrase is generally used for change-ups and curveballs.

crooked number

Sports; Baseball

When a team scores more than one run in an inning, they are said to have put up a crooked number. The "crooked" part of the term simply comes from describing the numbers greater than one.

backstop

Sports; Baseball

A slang term to refer to the catcher in baseball. They are referred to as the backstop because they possess the skills to block balls from getting past them, thus impersonating an actual backstop.

five tool player

Sports; Baseball

A player who possesses and excels in all five tools in baseball: running speed, throwing power, fielding ability, hitting power, batting average. Five tool players are generally the best players, ...

warning track power

Sports; Baseball

The outfiled on a baseball field is lined by a dirt warning track to tell outfielders when they are getting close to the wall so that they do not run into it. The phrase "warning track power" refers ...

Bass-Ball

Sports; Baseball

The original name for baseball in the UK. The recorded game occurred in Surry in 1749. Although this is believed to be the origins of baseball, the British version of the game differed in many ways ...

back-to-back jacks

Sports; Baseball

When two players who bat consecutively in the lineup both hit home runs one after the other they are said to have hit back-to-back home runs. A slang term for a home run is a jack. Thus ...