(n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
(n.) The ball used in this game.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(2) Fenway, which also owns the Boston Red Sox baseball team, bought Liverpool for £300m in 2010 and pledged to return the club to the top of English football, following what was then a 20-year gap since the club last won the top flight.
(3) The San Francisco Giants are baseball's new comeback kings and will face the Detroit Tigers in the 2012 World Series.
(4) That is the question facing Major League Baseball pitchers who are faced with the horrendous looking but protective hat that made its debut this week.
(5) Even baseball, the country's favourite sport, is showing signs of change.
(6) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
(7) Not quite "you can't predict baseball", but in the range.
(8) This may sound crazy, but with each passing day, Major League Soccer, which shares part of sporting calendar with the baseball season, becomes more and more of a long term threat to MLB, never mind what happens when the NFL kicks off in September.
(9) Nicknamed “Mr Padre”, the left-hander had a 20-year career in Major League Baseball , all of it with San Diego.
(10) Although it's not nearly as surprising as the Pittsburgh Pirates fighting toward the playoffs after 20 years of losing seasons , or the Kansas City Royals playing meaningful, September baseball for the first time in over a decade , but since stealing manager John Farrell away from the Toronto Blue Jays, the Red Sox have established themselves as the best team in the American League despite preseason predictions dooming them to repeat as the worst.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rodriguez, who has been recovering from offseason hip surgery and who stands to lose more than $35m on the remaining portion of his contract should the reported suspension be carried out, has a team of lawyers working to battle the office of the commissioner on any penalties, despite MLBPA union head Michael Weiner reaching out to baseball's brass to try to hammer out a late deal on Saturday, an offer that was rejected by the sport's ruling body.
(12) Data were examined for 47 (30) professional baseball players over a 2-yr. (3-yr.) period.
(13) And Eurie Stamp, a grandfather of 12, who was sitting watching baseball on TV in his pajamas in Farmington, Massachusetts, in January 2011 when a Swat team battered down his door, threw a flashbang device into the room and forced him to lie facedown on the floor.
(14) Shoppers could buy USA baseball caps and Trump T-shirts, then pose for a photo against an image of the White House.
(15) All participated in sports that involved throwing (mostly professional baseball), and all had valgus instability of the elbow.
(16) The concept of a sponsor being given naming rights to a stadium is fairly new to the UK but has been common practice in the US for some time, with companies paying up to £9m a year to have baseball and American football stadiums named after them.
(17) I was turned into this figurehead for baseball players trying to be more political,” he says.
(18) As for a more permanent solution, it’s now up to Cromartie and the Montreal Baseball Project to try to take advantage of the momentum, seek to form a would-be local ownership group, secure government stadium funding and begin the process of trying to lure the two teams with outstanding stadium issues, Tampa Bay and Oakland, over to Montreal.
(19) All of the pitchers returned to professional or college league baseball without recurrence of the ulcer.
(20) All four pitchers returned to professional baseball the year following surgical excision of the bursa.
Dugout
Definition:
(n.) A canoe or boat dug out from a large log.
(n.) A place dug out.
(n.) A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
(2) Red Sox manager John Farrell immediately and furiously made his way from the dugout to contest the decision.
(3) But wait, there's more... Holliday, taking his time, likely thinking about what he's going to do in the dugout, then takes a turn at first base once he figures out what's happening - Ellsbury picked it up and throws to Ortiz who applies the tag and he's out!
(4) Giroud’s finish was even better but it was not long before the dissent could be heard around Wenger’s dugout again.
(5) In their cynicism about Putin, western diplomats are making the Ukrainian crisis worse | Mary Dejevsky Read more But the men were exhausted after spending the past month in frigid dugouts with holes blown in the roofs by near-constant shelling.
(6) The action does not extend to dugout interviews, that's just an FYI...
(7) After that he slipped away to the forest where he was able to send Theoneste a note asking for cash to hire a dugout to take him across Lake Kivu to the Zairean island of Ijwe.
(8) Stoke's Glenn Whelan was sent off for a very silly second yellow card, Hughes found himself banished from the bench for protesting – lobbing his managerial anorak over the dugout roof in disgust en route – and Marc Wilson was also dismissed after conceding a penalty.
(9) While it was the epochal shift in the dugout that caught most attention at Old Trafford last summer, similarly significant change blew through the boardroom.
(10) Without a spectator in sight to cheer the spectacular strike, the dugout goes crazy, while her team-mates pile on top of the 25-year-old, who now plays for Albi in France’s women’s Ligue 1.
(11) Costa, who had made way for the youngster, was busy signing autographs and taking selfies with the supporters behind the dugout by that stage.
(12) Two players were then booked for taking their protests too far and Matic was swiftly followed down the tunnel by the assistant first-team coach, Silvino Louro, who was dismissed for haranguing the fourth official, while Mourinho disappeared from the dugout after the break.
(13) Brian McDermott did not last long in the dugout before the appointment of Dave Hockaday, who had last managed Forest Green Rovers in the Conference and was sacked by Cellino after six matches.
(14) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
(15) The crowd is relieved as the Dodgers race in to the dugout!
(16) Mourinho had been supported here by his family, his wife Matilde, son José Jr and daughter Matilde, who was celebrating her birthday, sitting a few rows behind the dugouts.
(17) It's a low fastball that Adams lets go - he's upset, Molina pops out of the dugout to make sure he's not ejected by the umpire for arguing balls and strikes, and that's the inning.
(18) Daniel Sturridge calls winner ‘a brilliant feeling’ after England beat Wales Read more “I’d have been a lot less ecstatic if we’d not conceded that late one against Russia at the weekend which robbed us of a deserved victory,” said Hodgson, whose reaction had been joyful in the dugout.
(19) A man down on the pitch and two down in the dugout, Chelsea faced a stern character test now, on top of their footballing trial.
(20) The player, who received the full backing of his club, had argued contact with Can during the Capital One Cup semi-final win over Liverpool had been purely accidental and pointed out he had not been looking at the player when he planted his right foot on his opponent’s shin in front of the dugouts.