What's the difference between infield and shortstop?
Infield
Definition:
(v. t.) To inclose, as a field.
(n.) Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield.
(n.) The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roger Kirkby: An infield single for Papi, lol Wait until he steals a base in this series.
(2) 3.58am BST Tigers 5 - Red Sox 1, top of 8th Martinez is held in check by Doubront, who gets him to pop out on the right side of the infield - Carp makes the catch.
(3) 1.54am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 2, Top 6th Infield hit from Marco Scutaro to start things off.
(4) Three patients died manifesting only local (infield) recurrence; five died manifesting only distant recurrence; and five developed local and distant recurrence.
(5) The infield failure rate increased as a function of stage from 9% in Stage I to 23% in Stage II and 48% in Stage III.
(6) Two down for Pedro Alvarez, who is looking for that elusive ball out of the infield.
(7) The Belgian held off Ciaran Clark to wriggle infield and spit a shot which flew through Brad Guzan’s legs at the near post.
(8) Then Frazier launches a rope that bounces off the wall in center field, McCutchen casually grabs it and throws back into the infield - the Reds third baseman has a one out double.
(9) The centre-half had collected a throw-in on 15 minutes and attempted a blind pass infield, only to dribble the ball straight to a rampaging Costa.
(10) With the infield in, Jay hit a grounder to diving second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
(11) The infield relapse-free survival at 24 months was 49% (95% confidence interval: 32-66%).
(12) Events went from bad to ridiculous for the Redbirds in the second inning, when Stephen Drew popped the ball up into the infield and catcher Yadier Molina and pitcher Adam Wainwright both moved towards the ball and then contrived to call each other off and watched the ball drop harmlessly between them.
(13) He actually gets 0-2 on Torii Hunter before wasting a pitch to make it 1-2 and he hits an infield single to Xander Bogaerts.
(14) 72 min: Downing, ostensibly on the right now, keeps wandering infield.
(15) In the 86th minute Gardner swept the ball infield and it fell to McClean 20 yards out.
(16) The survival and rate of chest infield relapse was examined in 48 patients with limited disease small cell lung cancer (LSCLC) who had achieved complete (CR) or partial response (PR) following three courses of chemotherapy.
(17) 12.19am GMT Giants 0 - Tigers 0, Top 1st Marco Scutaro pops up, and outfielder Austin Jackson has to go all the way to the edge of the infield to make the catch.
(18) Pedroia pops to right, and then Ortiz grounds one into the shallow outfield where Carpenter, playing in the shift, makes the grab and fires not in time - an infield base hit for Papi!
(19) They win a throw in and when it comes infield after a couple of "phases" Paulinho tries to chip Casillas who has to push it out from behind the line.
(20) The midfielder’s nod down went infield to the Dutchman and his lay-off was put ruthlessly beyond McGregor by Rooney.
Shortstop
Definition:
(n.) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Runners at the corners for Daniel Descalso who he hits a hard ground ball right to Barmes at shortstop (not second base), he steps on the bag at second to get Freese for one out, fires to first to get the second out, and that's what we call an inning ending double play...or sometimes we call it a pitchers best friend.
(2) Gaspirini, a shortstop who counts speed amongst his best attributes, recently made his first trip to the United States, to visit his new organization at Kauffman Field.
(3) Zito is looking for that double play to get the heck out of the inning, but is gifted a pop to left that shortstop Brandon Crawford is out to collect.
(4) Kevin Siegrist is warming up in the Cards bullpen as Michael Young is retired easily via a 100MPH pitch that gets Young to bounce out to Kozma at shortstop.
(5) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
(6) The Red Sox even brought in shortstop Stephen Drew on a one-year deal, despite the fact that Boston fans disliked his older brother J.D.
(7) When the Red Sox called up shortstop prospect Jose Iglesias the hope was that he would be good enough to stick around on a big league roster.
(8) Another rookie, Wil Myers, is walked on four pitches before Ben Zobrist lines a shot through the hole between second base and shortstop- shaky start for Perez.
(9) 4.51am BST Cardinals 5 - Nationals 6, Bottom 8th The "aggressive" (read: kind of impatient and often frustrating) shortstop Ian Desmond is up and he's definitely not bunting here.
(10) Meanwhile, there’s a core of first baseman Anthony Rizzo, shortstop Starlin Castro and outfield Nate Schierholtz, who just have to get better if there’s to be any offensive improvement.
(11) @LengelDavid October 24, 2013 Well you must have liked that little backhand from Stephen Drew at shortstop to get Carpenter for the first out, right?
(12) Mercer stays in the game and replaces Barmes at shortstop for Pittsburgh.
(13) New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, who retires this season, has won over hundreds of thousands of fans and our tribute video gives a hat-tip to his remarkable sportsmanship.
(14) Price doesn't look like giving up this lead or anything right now - he's in complete command, that is until the Rangers shortstop lines a shot straight up the middle and into center field.
(15) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
(16) That's second base to the shortstop to first base - two outs, one time.
(17) 4.03am BST Dodgers 3 - Cardinals 0, Final Vin Scully says "and the Dodgers are alive and well..." That they are after Molina grounds out to the shortstop - this ballgame is over.
(18) Back inside Tropicana Field, facing his old team, the Tampa Bay Rays, Price had a shaky first inning: Eugenio Suárez’s error at shortstop put the Rays’ Ben Zobrist on first base and the next batter, Brandon Guyer, knocked him home with a triple to right field, putting the Rays up 1-0.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter celebrates after the game with (from left to right) Joe Torre, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada, and Andy Pettitte after the game.
(20) 1.14am BST Reds 0 - Pirates 0, top of 1st Ryan Ludwick is up next, and the Reds left fielder hits a soft grounder to shortstop where Clint Barmes is there to fire over to first base for the second out.