(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.
Phenom
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A get a rookie phenom on the bench in Xander Bogaerts just waiting to come in and turn the series on its head, piles of starting pitching, boatloads of bullpen talent, a Cardinals team capable of scoring in droves without hitting homers and a Boston lineup that bullied the AL all season long by racking up over 850 runs, even if they haven't scored many lately .
(2) Luckily the Cardinals will have rookie phenom Michael Wacha, who has yet to take a loss this postseason, on the mound tonight .
(3) Dr Michael Dobbie, chief executive of the Australian Phenomics Network, said the program had provided critical infrastructure for the Australian biomedical research fraternity.
(4) Yes the Rays have actually scored fewer runs per game since rookie phenom Wil Myers joined the lineup (surprising), but who cares now that close to normal service has resumed on the pitching front – a 2.26 staff ERA and a .206 batting average against in July, with David Price dominating opponents once more.
(5) Former World Player of the Year Kaka and Robinho, the one-time phenom who inspired Pele to stop a training session and tell the then teenager he reminded him of himself, would certainly fit the bill, and help satisfy some of the 214,369 people who “liked” Orlando City’s Brazilian Facebook page within two months of it being set up.
(6) When they started the season without phenom Manny Machado and lost him again to a freakish August injury .
(7) 12.45am BST Boston Red Sox lineup The big news is, as expected, rookie phenom Xander Bogaerts is in the starting lineup once again for struggling third baseman Will Middlebrooks.
(8) Bryce Harper, the other half of the phenom dream team, had quite the start to a season, hitting two home runs in his very first at bats, just in case anyone was thinking about any potential sophomore slump.
(9) Although many teams have afforded second, third and fourth chances to players with behaviour concerns in the past, they are less likely to do so for a 30-year-old offensive guard than they might for a young phenom at another position.
(10) It also comprises artificial organisms, including a genome, a phenome, and a (developmental) map that connects the genome to the phenome.
(11) Severe hyperthermia, lethal to the cells, does not lead to L1Rn activation (actually a marked suppression is seen) and the mode of phenomic death is necrosis.
(12) You see it, especially on junior staff, they’re now caught in this situation – what do they do – so it’s a very awkward time at the moment.” Professor Chris Goodnow, of the Australian Phenomics Facility, said he was due in Washington in two weeks for a meeting “which gives us in Australia a seat at the table of the very cutting edge of genomics and biomedical research”.