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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grand slam

Sports; Baseball

A home run when there are 3 men on base, so four runs are scored.

glove

Sports; Baseball

The leather piece of equipment that ball players wear on their hands to catch the ball with. No kidding. A catchers and first baseman gloves are different than the rest of the teams. The catcher's ...

foul lines

Sports; Baseball

These are the lines that start at home plate and run through first and third base and continue into the outfield until they stop at the outfield fence.

strike zone

Sports; Baseball

The Strike Zone officially is: that area over home plate the upper limit of which is a horizontal line at the midpoint between the top of the shoulders and the lower level is a line at the hallow ...

suspended game

Sports; Baseball

A game that can't be played or finished and which will be completed at a later date.

substitutions

Sports; Baseball

One player can be substituted for another player but the player who is taken out of the game is not allowed to return.

suicide squeeze

Sports; Baseball

This is when a batter bunts the ball with a runner on third base and the runner is able to run home and score without being tagged out. The runner starts for home plate as soon as the ball is ...