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baseball
[ beys-bawl ]
noun
- a game of ball between two nine-player teams played usually for nine innings on a field that has as a focal point a diamond-shaped infield with a home plate and three other bases, 90 feet (27 meters) apart, forming a circuit that must be completed by a base runner in order to score, the central offensive action entailing hitting of a pitched ball with a wooden or metal bat and running of the bases, the winner being the team scoring the most runs.
- the ball used in this game, being a sphere approximately 3 inches (7 centimeters) in diameter with a twine-covered center of cork covered by stitched horsehide.
- Cards. a variety of five-card or seven-card stud poker in which nines and threes are wild and in which threes and fours dealt face up gain the player either penalties or privileges.
baseball
/ ˈɪˌɔː /
noun
- a team game with nine players on each side, played on a field with four bases connected to form a diamond. The object is to score runs by batting the ball and running round the bases
- the hard rawhide-covered ball used in this game
Other Word Forms
- ·b adjective
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Example Sentences
The championship game of the Boras Classic matching the baseball winners of the Southern California and Northern California divisions will take place at noon Saturday at the University of San Diego.
The Cleveland Browns have the second pick and their general manager Andrew Berry has compared Hunter to baseball's two-way star Shohei Ohtani, adding that "you get a unicorn if you use him both ways".
Hunter Manning lives so close to the West Ranch High baseball field that he can hear sounds of balls being hit in the batting cage at night.
Throughout baseball history, such collisions have been met mostly with grimaces and shrugs.
Because he was an athlete heading to New York’s Skidmore College on a baseball scholarship, Bernthal scoffed at pursuing the art form.
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