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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hit and run

Sports; Baseball

A play on which a runner runs as soon as the pitcher goes into his windup. The batter will try to make contact with the ball, and even if the batter gets out the runner will have been able to advance ...

hit by a pitch

Sports; Baseball

If a ball hits the batter he goes to first base. A batter can't lean into the strike zone to get hit by a pitch intentionally, to try and reach first base.

home plate

Sports; Baseball

This is a 5-sided piece of rubber that serves as one of the four bases. The width of home plate is used to determine the strike zone. A ball has to travel over home plate in order for it to be called ...

ground out

Sports; Baseball

The batter hit's the ball along the ground and an infielder gets the ball and throws it to a baseman before the batter / runner has time to get to a base.

high and tight

Sports; Baseball

When a ball is thrown so it is "high", the same height as the batters head, and "tight" so it is close to the batter's head. For some reasons batters are not real fond of this, temperamental bunch.

score

Sports; Baseball

see "run"

tagging up

Sports; Baseball

This is when a base runner waits for an outfielder to catch a fly ball and then leaves the base he is standing on to move to the next base. The base runner can't leave the base he is standing on ...