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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left on base (LOB)

Sports; Baseball

A baserunner is said to be left on base (abbreviated LOB) or stranded when the half-inning ends and he has not scored or been put out. This includes a batter-runner who has hit into a fielder's ...

caught napping

Sports; Baseball

A baserunner who is tagged out because he wasn't paying attention to what the defensive players were doing is "caught napping." Often this involves a pickoff play in which the infielder sneaks up ...

corked bat

Sports; Baseball

A bat in which cork (or possibly rubber or some other elastic material) has been inserted into the core of the wooden barrel. Although modifying a bat in this way may help to increase bat speed or ...

automatic double

Sports; Baseball

A batted ball in fair territory which bounces and out of play (e.g. into the seats) entitles the batter and all runners on base to advance two bases but no further. This term is used by some ...

hopper

Sports; Baseball

A batted ball that takes several bounces in the infield or perhaps just a single "high hop" after it hits the ground just in front of home plate.

seeing-eye ball

Sports; Baseball

A batted ground ball that just eludes capture by an infielder, just out of infielder's range, as if it could "see" where it needed to go. Less commonly used for a ball that takes an unusual lateral ...

choke up

Sports; Baseball

A batter "chokes up" by sliding his hands up from the knob end of the bat to give him more control over his bat. It reduces the power and increases the control. Prior to driving in the Series-winning ...