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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lefty one out guy (LOOGY)

Sports; Baseball

A mildly derogatory nickname for a left-handed specialist. A left-handed pitcher who may be brought into the game to pitch against just one or two left-handed batters to take extreme advantage of ...

mop up

Sports; Baseball

A mop-up pitcher or "mop-up man" is usually the bullpen's least effective reliever who comes in after the outcome of the game is all but certain. Sometimes other position players also come in to mop ...

pitcher's best friend

Sports; Baseball

A nickname for a double play.

interstate

Sports; Baseball

A batting average below .200. A player with a batting average of .195 is said to be on I-95, a reference to the numbering on the Interstate Highway System.

Mendoza line

Sports; Baseball

A batting average of .200. Named (most likely) for Mario Mendoza, a notoriously poor hitter but decent shortstop who managed to have a 9-year major league career from 1974 to 1982 with a life-time ...

laser show

Sports; Baseball

A batting performance with a high number of base hits, particularly line drives. Also, the nickname of Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia.

cock-shot

Sports; Baseball

A belt-high, very hittable fastball, usually down the middle of the plate. As used by Bob McClure, current Red Sox Pitching Coach: "When you throw a cock-shot fastball just above the belt, right down ...