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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blooper

Sports; Baseball

A blooper or bloop is a weakly hit fly ball that drops in for a single between an infielder and an outfielder. Also known as a bloop single, a dying quail, or a duck snort. A fielding error. ...

chinker

Sports; Baseball

A blooper; a dying quail; a bleeder.

blown save

Sports; Baseball

A blown save (BS) is charged to a relief pitcher who enters a game in a save situation but allows the tying run to score. If the pitcher further allows the winning run to score, he is charged with ...

bonehead play

Sports; Baseball

A bonehead play or "boner" is a mental mistake that changes the course of a game dramatically. A play where there is an obvious loss of focus and a bad choice was made when the alternative was clear.

knee-buckler

Sports; Baseball

A breaking ball (usually a curveball) that breaks very sharply, so much so that it freezes the hitter. Also refers to a breaking ball that starts out directly at the batter—so that his or her knees ...

hang

Sports; Baseball

A breaking ball that does not break, and so is easy to hit. A hanging curveball. A pitcher may be hung with a loss if he is responsible for his team falling behind in runs and the team never recovers ...

backdoor breaking ball

Sports; Baseball

A breaking pitch, usually a slider, curveball, or cut fastball that, due to its lateral motion, passes through a small part of the strike zone on the outside edge of the plate after appearing it ...