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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fungo bat

Sports; Baseball

A lightweight bat with a long, skinny barrel used to hit fungoes. It is not a legal or safe bat to use in a game or even in practice with a live pitcher, because it is too light.

drive

Sports; Baseball

A line drive. To hit a line drive (verb). "Magglio drove the ball to center." To make hits that produce RBIs. "Tejada drove him home from second." "Ramirez drove in three."

BB

Sports; Baseball

A line drive hit so hard that a fielder has trouble catching up to it. The reference is to being shot from a BB gun.

base on balls (BB)

Sports; Baseball

BB" is scorer's shorthand for a walk. Walks are recorded under the "BB" column of a box score.

sweet spot

Sports; Baseball

A location that's perfect for the batter to swing at and hit a pitch very hard on the meat of the bat. "Batters know from experience that there is a sweet spot on the bat, about 17 centimetres (6.7 ...

big fly

Sports; Baseball

A long home run.

drought

Sports; Baseball

A long string or streak of at bats or games in which a batter goes hitless; or a string of starts in which a pitcher goes winless. Any other streak when a team goes winless or fails to reach the ...