series

en-noun

series (plural series or (obsolete) serieses)

series (plural)
serieses (obsolete plural)

→ Japanese: シリーズ (shirīzu)

→ Korean: 시리즈 (sirijeu)

→ Burmese: စီးရီး (ci:ri:)

Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.

مُتَسَلْسِلَة

in analysis: sum of the terms of a sequence

The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.

(cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.


batter

The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.


rope

en-noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

→ Irish: rópa

Tok Pisin: rop

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).

der

give him enough rope and he'll hang himself

you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope

He hit a rope past third and into the corner.


IP

en-noun

IP (countable and uncountable, plural IPs)

(baseball, countable, invariant) Initialism of innings pitched (the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher.)


keystone

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-keystone.wav

From key + stone.
Definition 4 (retail) possibly originated in the jewelry industry in the magazine called "Jewelers' Circular-Keystone".

(baseball) The combination of the shortstop and second baseman.


fair

en-adj

fair (comparative fairer, superlative fairest)

fairer (comparative)
fairest (superlative)

→ German: fair

→ Hebrew: פייר

→ Macedonian: фер (fer)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фер

Latin script: fer

From Middle English fayr, feir, fager, from Old English fæġer (“beautiful”), from Proto-West Germanic *fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz (“suitable, fitting, nice”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”).
Cognate with Scots fayr, fare (“fair”), Danish feir, faver, fager (“fair, pretty”), Norwegian fager (“fair, pretty”), Swedish fager (“fair, pretty”), Icelandic fagur (“beautiful, fair”), Umbrian pacer (“gracious, merciful, kind”), Slovak pekný (“good-looking, handsome, nice”). See also peace.


double

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English double, from Old French doble, double, from Latin duplus (“twofold”). Doublet of doppio and duple.

The catcher hit a double to lead off the ninth.


double

en-verb

double (third-person singular simple present doubles, present participle doubling, simple past and past participle doubled)

doubles (present singular third-person)
doubling (participle present)
doubled (participle past)
doubled (past)

The batter doubled into the corner.


double

Inherited from Old French doble, from Latin duplus.


cannon

en-noun

cannon (countable and uncountable, plural cannons or (mainly UK) cannon)

cannons (plural)
cannon (UK mainly plural)

Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canyon.
This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

He’s got a cannon out in right.

(baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.


batsman

batswoman

batsman; when is treated as both male and female


poke

From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach.

onomatopoeic

imitative

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

(baseball, slang) A hit, especially an extra base hit.


battery

en-noun

battery (countable and uncountable, plural batteries)

Korean: 배터리 (baeteori)

Borrowed from Middle French batterie, from Old French baterie (“action of beating”), from batre (“battre”), from Latin battuō (“beat”), from Gaulish. Doublet of batterie.

der

(baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together


squeeze

en-verb

squeeze (third-person singular simple present squeezes, present participle squeezing, simple past squeezed or (nonstandard) squoze, past participle squeezed or (nonstandard) squozen)

squeezes (present singular third-person)
squeezing (participle present)
squeezed (past)
squoze (nonstandard past)
squeezed (participle past)
squozen (nonstandard participle past)

From earlier squize, squise (whence also dialectal English squizzen and squeege), first attested around 1600, further origin uncertain; probably an alteration of quease (which is attested since 1550), from Middle English queisen (“to squeeze”), from Old English cwēsan, cwȳsan (“to crush, squeeze”), itself also of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare Swedish qväsa, kväsa (“to squeeze, bruise, crush; quell”), Dutch kwetsen (“to injure, hurt”), German quetschen (“to squeeze”)). Or, a blend of obsolete squiss (“to squeeze”) (whence also squash and squish) with quease. Compare also French esquicher from Old Occitan esquichar (“to press, squeeze”).
The slang expression "to put the squeeze on (someone or something)", meaning "to exert influence", is from 1711. The baseball term "squeeze play" is first recorded 1905. "Main squeeze" ("most important person") is attested from 1896, the specific meaning "one's sweetheart, lover" is attested in 1970s.
The nonstandard strong forms squoze and squozen, attested dialectally since at least the mid-19th century, are by analogy with freeze.

cog

Jones squeezed in Smith with a perfect bunt.

(transitive, baseball) To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.

ճզմրտուք

baseball: to attempt to score a runner from third by bunting


squeeze

The game ended in exciting fashion with a failed squeeze.

(baseball) The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.

スクイズ

baseball: the act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third


decision

en-noun

decision (countable and uncountable, plural decisions)

From Middle French, from Latin dēcīsiō, dēcīsiōnis, from dēcīdō (“to decide”).

(baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.


sacrifice

sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Italic *sakros
Latin sacer
Latin sacrum
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin facio
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Italic *-jōs
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sacrificiumlbor.
Old French sacrifisebor.
Middle English sacrifice
English sacrifice
From Middle English sacrifice (“act of offering a life or object to a deity; the life or object so offered; (Christianity) act of consecrating the elements in the mass”), from Anglo-Norman sacrefiz, and Old French sacrifice, sacrifise (modern French sacrifice), from Latin sacrificium (“something offered to a deity, sacrifice”), from sacrum (“sacrifice, sacrificial rite”) + faciō (“to do, to make”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The noun sacrum is the nominalized neuter of the adjective sacer (“devoted to a deity for sacrifice; holy, sacred”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“ceremony, ritual; to make sacred”), and the verb faciō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”). Related Latin formations include sacrificus (“of or pertaining to sacrifice, sacrificial”) and sacrificō (“to make a sacrifice”).
cognates
* Italian sagrifizio
* Occitan sacrifici
* Portuguese sacrificio
* Spanish sacrificio

der

(baseball) Short for sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit (“a play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners”).


sacrifice

en-verb

sacrifice (third-person singular simple present sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, simple past and past participle sacrificed)

sacrifices (present singular third-person)
sacrificing (participle present)
sacrificed (participle past)
sacrificed (past)
sacrifice (infinitive)

From Middle English sacrificen (“to offer a sacrifice to a deity”), from sacrifice (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming infinitives of verbs).

flijoj

(transitive) to offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity; (transitive) to offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity

(baseball) Of a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out but with insufficient time to put the runner(s) out.

sacrificar-se

(baseball, transitive) of a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded; (intransitive) to bat the ball so that it can be fielded

(baseball) Of a batter: to bat the ball so that it can be fielded, placing the batter out but allowing one or more runners on base to advance.


pea

From having the appearance of a pea (see English etymology 1), the edible seed of Pisum sativum, the pea plant.

(baseball) A ball travelling at high velocity.


jam

en-noun

jam (countable and uncountable, plural jams)

→ Armenian: ջեմ (ǰem)

→ Azerbaijani: cem

→ Belarusian: джэм (džem)

→ Bengali: জ্যাম (jêm)

→ Bulgarian: джем (džem)

→ Cantonese: 占 (zim1, zem1)

→ Czech: džem

→ Dutch: jam

→ Estonian: džemm

→ Finnish: jamit

→ French: jam

→ Georgian: ჯემი (ǯemi)

→ Hindi: जाम (jām)

→ Japanese: ジャム (jamu)

→ Kazakh: джем (djem)

→ Korean: 잼 (jaem)

→ Kyrgyz: джем (djem)

→ Macedonian: џем (džem)

→ Malay: jem

→ Polish: dżem

→ Romanian: gem

→ Russian: джем (džem)

→ Saanich: ĆÁM

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Latin script: džȅm

Cyrillic script: џе̏м

→ Sinhalese: ජෑම් (jǣm)

→ Slovak: džem

→ Swahili: jemu

→ Swedish: jam

→ Tajik: джем (džem)

→ Thai: แยม (yɛɛm)

→ Ukrainian: джем (džem)

→ Urdu: جام (jām)

→ Welsh: jam

First attested in the early 18th c. as a verb meaning “to press, be pressed, be wedged in”. Compare dialectal jammock (“to press, squeeze, crush into a soft mass, chew food"; also "a soft, pulpy substance”). Perhaps from Middle English chammen, champen ("to bite upon something, gnash the teeth"; whence modern champ, chomp), of uncertain origin; probably originally onomatopoeic.
The "performance" sense is first attested with regards to jazz in 1929, and its origin, though uncertain, is likely metaphorical, "something sweet made by the combination of many things", with influence from jamboree.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

The pitcher's in a jam now, having walked the bases loaded with the cleanup hitter coming to bat.

(countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.


jam

en-verb

jam (third-person singular simple present jams, present participle jamming, simple past and past participle jammed)

jams (present singular third-person)
jamming (participle present)
jammed (participle past)
jammed (past)

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

Jones was jammed by the pitch.

(baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.

syöttää käsiä päin

baseball: to throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands


diamond

en-noun

diamond (countable and uncountable, plural diamonds)

From Middle English dyamaunt, from Old French diamant, from Late Latin diamas, from Latin adamas, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “diamond”). Doublet of adamant. The printing sense is a calque of Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700; compare pearl, ruby (“size of type between pearl and nonpareil”).

der

(baseball) The entire field of play used in the game.

The teams met on the diamond.

(baseball) The infield of a baseball field.


walk

en-verb

walk (third-person singular simple present walks, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked)

walks (present singular third-person)
walking (participle present)
walked (participle past)
walked (past)
walk (infinitive)

Chinese Pidgin English: walkee

From Middle English walken (“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną, *walkōną (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”).
Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken (“to wander about”), German walken (“to flex, full, mill, drum”), Danish valke (“to waulk, full”), Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Sanskrit वल्गति (valgati, “amble, bound, leap, dance”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.

cog

(transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.

aya

baseball: to allow to advance after four balls

(intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.


walk

From Middle English walk, walke, walc, from Old English *wealc (as in Old English wealcspinl) and ġewealc (“a rolling motion, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *walką. Cognate with Icelandic válk (“a rolling around, a tossing to and fro, trouble, distress”).

The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone.

(baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".


top

en-noun

top (countable and uncountable, plural tops)

From Middle English top, toppe, from Old English top (“top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”), from Proto-West Germanic *topp, from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“braid, pigtail, end”), of unknown ultimate origin.
Cognate with Scots tap (“top”), North Frisian top, tap, tup (“top”), Saterland Frisian Top (“top”), West Frisian top (“top”), Dutch top (“top, summit, peak”), Low German Topp (“top”), German Zopf (“braid, pigtail, plait, top”), Swedish topp (“top, peak, summit, tip”), Icelandic toppur (“top”).
The sense of a spinning toy is separated from this, obscurely related to Dutch top and dop in this sense, against Standard Dutch tol, and French toupie having this sense.

頂上

chōjō, ちょうじょう

suprulo

BDSM: dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay

主動

gay sexual slang: gay man who likes to penetrate in sex

one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top

The highest or uppermost part of something.

(baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.


RF

en-noun

RF (countable and uncountable, plural RFs)

(baseball) Initialism of right field or right fielder.


inning

→ Japanese: イニング (iningu)

Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.

It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.

(baseball) A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.


pepper

pepper (countable and uncountable, plural peppers)

Tok Pisin: pepa

→ Hawaiian: pepa

→ Marshallese: pepa

From Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from Proto-West Germanic *pipar, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source; compare Sanskrit पिप्पलि (pippali, “long pepper”). The name was given to the capsicum fruit because of its unusual spicy taste, not unlike the Old World spice. Cognate with Scots pepar, Saterland Frisian Pieper, West Frisian piper, Dutch peper, German Low German Peper, German Pfeffer, Danish peber, Swedish peppar, Icelandic pipar. Doublet of falafel and peepul.

cog

Some ballparks have signs saying "No pepper games".

(baseball) A game used by baseball players to warm up where fielders standing close to a batter rapidly return the batted ball to be hit again


rubber

en-noun

rubber (usually uncountable, plural rubbers)

desc

→ Kashubian: roberk (Canada, United State)

→ Sikaiana: lapa

From rub + -er.
The sense of the substance comes from its ability to function as an eraser, displacing earlier caoutchouc. The senses not having to do with rubbing or erasing are secondarily derived from the name of the substance.

Jones toes the rubber and then fires to the plate.

(countable, baseball) The rectangular pad on the pitcher's mound from which the pitcher must pitch.


out

From Middle English out, oute, from a combination of Old English ūt (“out”, preposition & adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *ūt, from Proto-Germanic *ūt (“out”); and Old English ūte (“outside; without”, adverb), from Proto-Germanic *ūtai (“out; outside”); both from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“upwards, away”).
Cognate with Scots oot, out (“out”), Saterland Frisian uut, uute (“out”), West Frisian út (“out”), Dutch uit (“out”), German Low German ut (“out”), German aus (“out”), Norwegian/Swedish ut, ute (“out; outside”), Danish ud, ude (“out; outside”).

inh

There are numerous individual phrasal verbs

Wilson was bowled out for five runs.

First ball hit me on the 'and, second 'ad me on the knee, the third was in my eye, the fourth bowled me out.

1876, The School newspaper Vol. [2 issues of vols. 31 and 32]., page 66:

Hayes batted for Reed and grounded out, Murray unassisted.

1984, Official Baseball Guide, page 211:

So, first guy, Larry strikes him out, good fastball in on his hands.

2007, Philip R. Craig, William G. Tapply, Third Strike: A Brady Coyne/J. W. Jackson Mystery, page 27:

The striking batter is bowled out when the wicket is broken with the bowler's delivery. A batter is bowled out whether or not the ball is touched or deflected into the stumps by the batter.

2010, Mark Butcher, Paul Abraham, Learn to Play Cricket: Teach Yourself, page A-65:

(cricket, baseball) Of a player, so as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).


out

→ Greek: άουτ (áout)

→ Japanese: アウト (auto)

→ Korean: 아웃 (aut)

→ Spanish: out

The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.

2014, Tom Bentley, Flowering: And Other Stories:

(baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.


manager

→ Albanian: menaxher

→ Burmese: မန်နေဂျာ (mannegya)

→ Catalan: mànager

→ Dutch: manager

→ French: manager
→ Turkish: menajer

→ German: Manager

→ Greek: μάνατζερ (mánatzer)

→ Hungarian: menedzser

→ Italian: manager

→ Japanese: マネージャー (manējā)

→ Korean: 매니저 (maenijeo)

→ Polish: menedżer

→ Romanian: manager

→ Russian: ме́неджер (ménedžer)

→ Scottish Gaelic: manaidsear

→ Spanish: mánager

→ Swahili: meneja

→ Ukrainian: ме́неджер (ménedžer)


home plate

→ Japanese: ホームベース (hōmu bēsu)

(baseball) A flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batter's box, which is used as a basis for judging pitched strikes and balls, and the touching of which by a runner advancing from or past third base scores a run.


väärä

fi-adj

väärä (comparative väärempi, superlative väärin)

väärempi (comparative)
väärin (superlative)
väärä (nominative singular)
väärät (nominative plural)
väärä (accusative nominative singular)
väärät (accusative nominative plural)
väärän (accusative genitive singular)
väärät (accusative genitive plural)
väärän (genitive singular)
väärien (genitive plural)
vääräin (genitive plural rare)
väärää (partitive singular)
vääriä (partitive plural)
väärässä (inessive singular)
väärissä (inessive plural)
väärästä (elative singular)
vääristä (elative plural)
väärään (illative singular)
vääriin (illative plural)
väärällä (adessive singular)
väärillä (adessive plural)
väärältä (ablative singular)
vääriltä (ablative plural)
väärälle (allative singular)
väärille (allative plural)
vääränä (essive singular)
väärinä (essive plural)
vääräksi (singular translative)
vääriksi (plural translative)
väärättä (abessive singular)
väärittä (abessive plural)
väärin (instructive plural)
väärine (comitative plural)
vääräni (nominative singular)
vääräni (nominative plural)
vääräni (accusative nominative singular)
vääräni (accusative nominative plural)
vääräni (accusative genitive singular)
vääräni (accusative genitive plural)
vääräni (genitive singular)
väärieni (genitive plural)
vääräini (genitive plural rare)
väärääni (partitive singular)
vääriäni (partitive plural)
väärässäni (inessive singular)
väärissäni (inessive plural)
väärästäni (elative singular)
vääristäni (elative plural)
väärääni (illative singular)
vääriini (illative plural)
väärälläni (adessive singular)
väärilläni (adessive plural)
väärältäni (ablative singular)
vääriltäni (ablative plural)
väärälleni (allative singular)
väärilleni (allative plural)
vääränäni (essive singular)
väärinäni (essive plural)
vääräkseni (singular translative)
väärikseni (plural translative)
väärättäni (abessive singular)
väärittäni (abessive plural)
väärineni (comitative plural)
vääräsi (nominative singular)
vääräsi (nominative plural)
vääräsi (accusative nominative singular)
vääräsi (accusative nominative plural)
vääräsi (accusative genitive singular)
vääräsi (accusative genitive plural)
vääräsi (genitive singular)
vääriesi (genitive plural)
vääräisi (genitive plural rare)
väärääsi (partitive singular)
vääriäsi (partitive plural)
väärässäsi (inessive singular)
väärissäsi (inessive plural)
väärästäsi (elative singular)
vääristäsi (elative plural)
väärääsi (illative singular)
vääriisi (illative plural)
väärälläsi (adessive singular)
väärilläsi (adessive plural)
väärältäsi (ablative singular)
vääriltäsi (ablative plural)
väärällesi (allative singular)
väärillesi (allative plural)
vääränäsi (essive singular)
väärinäsi (essive plural)
vääräksesi (singular translative)
vääriksesi (plural translative)
väärättäsi (abessive singular)
väärittäsi (abessive plural)
väärinesi (comitative plural)
väärämme (nominative singular)
väärämme (nominative plural)
väärämme (accusative nominative singular)
väärämme (accusative nominative plural)
väärämme (accusative genitive singular)
väärämme (accusative genitive plural)
väärämme (genitive singular)
vääriemme (genitive plural)
vääräimme (genitive plural rare)
vääräämme (partitive singular)
vääriämme (partitive plural)
väärässämme (inessive singular)
väärissämme (inessive plural)
väärästämme (elative singular)
vääristämme (elative plural)
vääräämme (illative singular)
vääriimme (illative plural)
väärällämme (adessive singular)
väärillämme (adessive plural)
väärältämme (ablative singular)
vääriltämme (ablative plural)
väärällemme (allative singular)
väärillemme (allative plural)
vääränämme (essive singular)
väärinämme (essive plural)
vääräksemme (singular translative)
vääriksemme (plural translative)
väärättämme (abessive singular)
väärittämme (abessive plural)
väärinemme (comitative plural)
vääränne (nominative singular)
vääränne (nominative plural)
vääränne (accusative nominative singular)
vääränne (accusative nominative plural)
vääränne (accusative genitive singular)
vääränne (accusative genitive plural)
vääränne (genitive singular)
väärienne (genitive plural)
vääräinne (genitive plural rare)
vääräänne (partitive singular)
vääriänne (partitive plural)
väärässänne (inessive singular)
väärissänne (inessive plural)
väärästänne (elative singular)
vääristänne (elative plural)
vääräänne (illative singular)
vääriinne (illative plural)
väärällänne (adessive singular)
väärillänne (adessive plural)
väärältänne (ablative singular)
vääriltänne (ablative plural)
väärällenne (allative singular)
väärillenne (allative plural)
vääränänne (essive singular)
väärinänne (essive plural)
vääräksenne (singular translative)
vääriksenne (plural translative)
väärättänne (abessive singular)
väärittänne (abessive plural)
väärinenne (comitative plural)
vääränsä (nominative singular)
vääränsä (nominative plural)
vääränsä (accusative nominative singular)
vääränsä (accusative nominative plural)
vääränsä (accusative genitive singular)
vääränsä (accusative genitive plural)
vääränsä (genitive singular)
vääriensä (genitive plural)
vääräinsä (genitive plural rare)
vääräänsä (partitive singular)
vääriään (partitive plural)
vääriänsä (partitive plural)
väärässään (inessive singular)
väärässänsä (inessive singular)
väärissään (inessive plural)
väärissänsä (inessive plural)
väärästään (elative singular)
väärästänsä (elative singular)
vääristään (elative plural)
vääristänsä (elative plural)
vääräänsä (illative singular)
vääriinsä (illative plural)
väärällään (adessive singular)
väärällänsä (adessive singular)
väärillään (adessive plural)
väärillänsä (adessive plural)
väärältään (ablative singular)
väärältänsä (ablative singular)
vääriltään (ablative plural)
vääriltänsä (ablative plural)
väärälleen (allative singular)
väärällensä (allative singular)
väärilleen (allative plural)
väärillensä (allative plural)
vääränään (essive singular)
vääränänsä (essive singular)
väärinään (essive plural)
väärinänsä (essive plural)
vääräkseen (singular translative)
vääräksensä (singular translative)
väärikseen (plural translative)
vääriksensä (plural translative)
väärättään (abessive singular)
väärättänsä (abessive singular)
väärittään (abessive plural)
väärittänsä (abessive plural)
väärineen (comitative plural)
väärinensä (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *väärä, of unknown further origin.
Semantic development
* "crooked, bent" is probably the original sense; compare the semantic development of English wrong from its original sense of "crooked, twisted".

(baseball, pesäpallo, of a pitch) outside strike zone


väärä

väärä (nominative singular)
väärät (nominative plural)
väärä (accusative nominative singular)
väärät (accusative nominative plural)
väärän (accusative genitive singular)
väärät (accusative genitive plural)
väärän (genitive singular)
väärien (genitive plural)
vääräin (genitive plural rare)
väärää (partitive singular)
vääriä (partitive plural)
väärässä (inessive singular)
väärissä (inessive plural)
väärästä (elative singular)
vääristä (elative plural)
väärään (illative singular)
vääriin (illative plural)
väärällä (adessive singular)
väärillä (adessive plural)
väärältä (ablative singular)
vääriltä (ablative plural)
väärälle (allative singular)
väärille (allative plural)
vääränä (essive singular)
väärinä (essive plural)
vääräksi (singular translative)
vääriksi (plural translative)
väärättä (abessive singular)
väärittä (abessive plural)
väärin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
vääräni (nominative singular)
vääräni (nominative plural)
vääräni (accusative nominative singular)
vääräni (accusative nominative plural)
vääräni (accusative genitive singular)
vääräni (accusative genitive plural)
vääräni (genitive singular)
väärieni (genitive plural)
vääräini (genitive plural rare)
väärääni (partitive singular)
vääriäni (partitive plural)
väärässäni (inessive singular)
väärissäni (inessive plural)
väärästäni (elative singular)
vääristäni (elative plural)
väärääni (illative singular)
vääriini (illative plural)
väärälläni (adessive singular)
väärilläni (adessive plural)
väärältäni (ablative singular)
vääriltäni (ablative plural)
väärälleni (allative singular)
väärilleni (allative plural)
vääränäni (essive singular)
väärinäni (essive plural)
vääräkseni (singular translative)
väärikseni (plural translative)
väärättäni (abessive singular)
väärittäni (abessive plural)
väärineni (comitative plural)
vääräsi (nominative singular)
vääräsi (nominative plural)
vääräsi (accusative nominative singular)
vääräsi (accusative nominative plural)
vääräsi (accusative genitive singular)
vääräsi (accusative genitive plural)
vääräsi (genitive singular)
vääriesi (genitive plural)
vääräisi (genitive plural rare)
väärääsi (partitive singular)
vääriäsi (partitive plural)
väärässäsi (inessive singular)
väärissäsi (inessive plural)
väärästäsi (elative singular)
vääristäsi (elative plural)
väärääsi (illative singular)
vääriisi (illative plural)
väärälläsi (adessive singular)
väärilläsi (adessive plural)
väärältäsi (ablative singular)
vääriltäsi (ablative plural)
väärällesi (allative singular)
väärillesi (allative plural)
vääränäsi (essive singular)
väärinäsi (essive plural)
vääräksesi (singular translative)
vääriksesi (plural translative)
väärättäsi (abessive singular)
väärittäsi (abessive plural)
väärinesi (comitative plural)
väärämme (nominative singular)
väärämme (nominative plural)
väärämme (accusative nominative singular)
väärämme (accusative nominative plural)
väärämme (accusative genitive singular)
väärämme (accusative genitive plural)
väärämme (genitive singular)
vääriemme (genitive plural)
vääräimme (genitive plural rare)
vääräämme (partitive singular)
vääriämme (partitive plural)
väärässämme (inessive singular)
väärissämme (inessive plural)
väärästämme (elative singular)
vääristämme (elative plural)
vääräämme (illative singular)
vääriimme (illative plural)
väärällämme (adessive singular)
väärillämme (adessive plural)
väärältämme (ablative singular)
vääriltämme (ablative plural)
väärällemme (allative singular)
väärillemme (allative plural)
vääränämme (essive singular)
väärinämme (essive plural)
vääräksemme (singular translative)
vääriksemme (plural translative)
väärättämme (abessive singular)
väärittämme (abessive plural)
väärinemme (comitative plural)
vääränne (nominative singular)
vääränne (nominative plural)
vääränne (accusative nominative singular)
vääränne (accusative nominative plural)
vääränne (accusative genitive singular)
vääränne (accusative genitive plural)
vääränne (genitive singular)
väärienne (genitive plural)
vääräinne (genitive plural rare)
vääräänne (partitive singular)
vääriänne (partitive plural)
väärässänne (inessive singular)
väärissänne (inessive plural)
väärästänne (elative singular)
vääristänne (elative plural)
vääräänne (illative singular)
vääriinne (illative plural)
väärällänne (adessive singular)
väärillänne (adessive plural)
väärältänne (ablative singular)
vääriltänne (ablative plural)
väärällenne (allative singular)
väärillenne (allative plural)
vääränänne (essive singular)
väärinänne (essive plural)
vääräksenne (singular translative)
vääriksenne (plural translative)
väärättänne (abessive singular)
väärittänne (abessive plural)
väärinenne (comitative plural)
vääränsä (nominative singular)
vääränsä (nominative plural)
vääränsä (accusative nominative singular)
vääränsä (accusative nominative plural)
vääränsä (accusative genitive singular)
vääränsä (accusative genitive plural)
vääränsä (genitive singular)
vääriensä (genitive plural)
vääräinsä (genitive plural rare)
vääräänsä (partitive singular)
vääriään (partitive plural)
vääriänsä (partitive plural)
väärässään (inessive singular)
väärässänsä (inessive singular)
väärissään (inessive plural)
väärissänsä (inessive plural)
väärästään (elative singular)
väärästänsä (elative singular)
vääristään (elative plural)
vääristänsä (elative plural)
vääräänsä (illative singular)
vääriinsä (illative plural)
väärällään (adessive singular)
väärällänsä (adessive singular)
väärillään (adessive plural)
väärillänsä (adessive plural)
väärältään (ablative singular)
väärältänsä (ablative singular)
vääriltään (ablative plural)
vääriltänsä (ablative plural)
väärälleen (allative singular)
väärällensä (allative singular)
väärilleen (allative plural)
väärillensä (allative plural)
vääränään (essive singular)
vääränänsä (essive singular)
väärinään (essive plural)
väärinänsä (essive plural)
vääräkseen (singular translative)
vääräksensä (singular translative)
väärikseen (plural translative)
vääriksensä (plural translative)
väärättään (abessive singular)
väärättänsä (abessive singular)
väärittään (abessive plural)
väärittänsä (abessive plural)
väärineen (comitative plural)
väärinensä (comitative plural)

(baseball, pesäpallo) A pitch that goes outside the strike zone.


inside

From Middle English ynneside; equivalent to in- + side.
Compare German Innenseite (“inside”), Danish inderside (“inside”), Swedish insida (“inside”), Dutch binnenzijde (“inside”), German Low German Binnensied, Binnersied (“inside”), Saterland Frisian Binnersiede (“inside”).

cog

The first pitch is ... just a bit inside.

(baseball, of a pitch) Toward the batter as it crosses home plate.


runner

From Middle English rennere, rynner, urnare, equivalent to run + -er. Cognate with Old Norse rennari (“runner; messenger”). Displaced earlier Middle English runel (“runner”), from Old English rynel (“runner”; also “messenger, courier”).

махови́к

mechanical part intended to guide or aid something else to move

The runner was out at second.

Agent noun of run; one who runs.
(baseball, softball) A baserunner.

Agent noun of run; one who runs.
A baserunner.


Yankee

First attested in 1683, as a name applied disparagingly by Dutch settlers in Nieuw Amsterdam (New York) to English colonists in neighboring Connecticut. It may be from Dutch Janke (“Little John”), the old diminutive form of the common personal name Jan, or it may be from Jan Kees, the familiar form of "Johan Cornelius", or a variant of Jan Kaas, literally "John Cheese", the generic nickname the Flemings used for Dutchmen. It originally seems to have been applied insultingly to the Dutch, especially freebooters, before they turned around and applied it to the English. In English it was a term of contempt (1750s) before it came to be used as a general term for "a native of New England" (1765). The shortened form Yank was first recorded in reference to "an American" in 1778. James Fenimore Cooper suggested that it was a corruption of "English" via the intermediate form "Yengeese."

(baseball) A player for the New York Yankees.

洋基

(baseball) player that plays for the New York Yankees


submarine

When Peterson saw the unusual pitching motion of Kent Tekulve—the submarine pitcher who threw baseballs as though they were coming right out of the rubber slab on the mound—he was the first of many who tried to change Tekulve's delivery.

2005, John McCollister, Tales from the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates: Remembering "The Fam-A-Lee", →ISBN, page 109:

(baseball) Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.


submarine

(baseball) A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.


tattoo

en-verb

tattoo (third-person singular simple present tattoos, present participle tattooing, simple past and past participle tattooed)

tattoos (present singular third-person)
tattooing (participle present)
tattooed (participle past)
tattooed (past)

From earlier tattaow, tattow, a borrowing from a Polynesian language, e.g. Samoan tatau (“tattoo; to tap, to strike”).

cog

Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.

(baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.


outside

en-adj

outside (comparative more outside, superlative most outside)

more outside (comparative)
most outside (superlative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-outside.wav

արտաքին

pertaining to the outer surface or boundary

The first pitch is ... just a bit outside.

(baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.


fireman

(baseball) A relief pitcher (reflecting the figurative analogy of rescuing the situation).


starter

Someone who starts, or who starts something.


single

→ Dutch: single

→ Finnish: sinkku

→ German: Single

→ Indonesian: singel

→ Japanese: シングル (shinguru)

→ Polish: singiel

From Middle English single, sengle, from Old French sengle, saingle, sangle, from Latin singulus, a diminutive derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one”). Akin to Latin simplex (“simple”). See simple, and compare singular.

(baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.


single

en-verb

single (third-person singular simple present singles, present participle singling, simple past and past participle singled)

singles (present singular third-person)
singling (participle present)
singled (participle past)
singled (past)

Pedro singled in the bottom of the eighth inning, which, if converted to a run, would put the team back into contention.

(baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.


bottom

en-noun

bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)

→ Dutch: bottom

→ French: bottom

PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.

سَالِب

gay sexual slang: penetrated partner in sex

(baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.

jälkimmäinen vuoro

baseball: second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat


shotgun

en-verb

shotgun (third-person singular simple present shotguns, present participle shotgunning, simple past and past participle shotgunned)

shotguns (present singular third-person)
shotgunning (participle present)
shotgunned (participle past)
shotgunned (past)

From shot + gun. Front passenger seat sense comes from ride shotgun.

(transitive, baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.


boner

erect penis

(slang, erect penis): erection, hard-on, stiffy

He really pulled a boner that time!

(dated slang, especially baseball) A blunder; a silly mistake.


scatter

scatter (third-person singular simple present scatters, present participle scattering, simple past and past participle scattered)

scatters (present singular third-person)
scattering (participle present)
scattered (participle past)
scattered (past)

From Middle English scateren, skateren, (also schateren, see shatter), from Old English *sceaterian, probably from a dialect of Old Norse. Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split, shatter”). Compare Middle Dutch scheteren (“to scatter”), Low German schateren, Dutch schateren (“to burst out laughing”); and is apparently remotely akin to Ancient Greek σκεδάννυμι (skedánnumi, “scatter, disperse”). and Tocharian B kät- (“to scatter, sow seeds”). Doublet of shatter.

cog

(transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks.


wave

en-verb

wave (third-person singular simple present waves, present participle waving, simple past and past participle waved)

waves (present singular third-person)
waving (participle present)
waved (participle past)
waved (past)

From Middle English waven, from Old English wafian (“to wave, fluctuate, waver in mind, wonder”), from Proto-West Germanic *wabōn, from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to wander, sway”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to move to and from, wander”).
Cognate with Middle High German waben (“to wave”), German wabern (“to waft”), Icelandic váfa (“to fluctuate, waver, doubt”). See also waver.

cog

Jones waves at strike one.

(intransitive, baseball) To swing and miss at a pitch.


cage

→ Zulu: ikheji

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.


pick

From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pīcan, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Doublet of pitch and peck.
Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)).

inh

(baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.


web

From Middle English webbe, from Old English webb, from Proto-Germanic *wabją, from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“weave”).

what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive

He caught the ball in the web.

(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.

web

the part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing


merry-go-round

Possibly from go round (= rotate) merrily.

Russell kept the merry-go-round moving with an RBI single that advanced Henderson to third.

(baseball, figurative) A series of singles and doubles that allow the batting team to score while still having runners on base who can be driven in by the next batter.


park

en-verb

park (third-person singular simple present parks, present participle parking, simple past and past participle parked)

parks (present singular third-person)
parking (participle present)
parked (participle past)
parked (past)

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.

cog

He really parked that one.

(transitive, baseball) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.


range

Japanese: レンジ (renji)

Korean: 레인지 (reinji)

From Middle English rengen, from Old French rengier (“to range, to rank, to order,”), from the noun renc, reng, ranc, rang (“a rank, row”), from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring, circle, curve”).

der

Jones has good range for a big man.

(sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.

防守領域

baseball: defensive area covered by a player


range

en-verb

range (third-person singular simple present ranges, present participle ranging, simple past and past participle ranged)

ranges (present singular third-person)
ranging (participle present)
ranged (participle past)
ranged (past)

Willie, playing in left-center, raced toward a ball no human had any business getting a glove to. Mays ranged to his left, searching, digging in, pouring on the speed, as the crowd screamed its anticipation of a triple.

2009, Jason Aronoff, Going, Going ... Caught!: Baseball's Great Outfield Catches as Described by Those Who Saw Them, 1887-1964, →ISBN, page 250:

(baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.


hill

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

From Middle English hil, from Old English hyll (“hill”), from Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”) (compare also Proto-Germanic *halluz (“stone, rock”)).
Cognate with Middle Dutch hille, hulle (“hill”), Low German hull (“hill”), Old Norse hóll (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), Lithuanian kalnas, Albanian kallumë (“big pile, tall heap”), Russian холм (xolm, “hill”), Old English holm (“rising land, island”). More at holm.


tater

Representing an aphetic pronunciation of potato. Compare patater (“potato”), 'mater (“tomato”), and 'naner (“banana”).

Playing 14 seasons in the major leagues, the right-handed-batting Scott was a three-time All-Star and hit 271 home runs, or taters, as he called them.

2013 July 29, Richard Goldstein, “George Scott, Slugger Who Boomed ‘Taters’ in Fenway, Dies at 69”, in The New York Times:


chase

en-verb

chase (third-person singular simple present chases, present participle chasing, simple past and past participle chased)

chases (present singular third-person)
chasing (participle present)
chased (participle past)
chased (past)

From Middle English chacen, from Anglo-Norman chacer, Old French chacier, from Late Latin captiāre, from Latin captāre, frequentative of capere. Compare French chasser (“to hunt”, “to chase”), Spanish cazar (“to hunt”), Portuguese caçar (“to hunt”)
, see Norwegian skysse (“to hunt”).
Doublet of catch and related to capture.
Displaced native Old English ōht, ēhtnes, and wāþ. Broadly overtook Old English huntaþ.

Jones chases one out of the zone for strike two.

(transitive, baseball) To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.

The rally chased the starter.

(transitive, baseball) To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.


sack

→ Japanese: サック (sakku)

From Middle English sak (“bag, sackcloth”), from Old English sacc (“sack, bag”) and sæcc (“sackcloth, sacking”); both from Proto-West Germanic *sakku, from late Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), borrowed from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic, possibly Phoenician or Hebrew.
Cognate with Dutch zak, German Sack, Swedish säck, Danish sæk, Hebrew שַׂק (śaq, “sack, sackcloth”), Aramaic סַקָּא, Classical Syriac ܣܩܐ, Ge'ez ሠቅ (śäḳ), Akkadian 𒆭𒊓 (saqqu), Egyptian sꜣgꜣ. Doublet of sac, saccus, saco, and sakkos.
Černý and Forbes suggest the word was originally Egyptian, a nominal derivative of sꜣq (“to gather or put together”) that also yielded Coptic ⲥⲟⲕ (sok, “sackcloth”) and was borrowed into Greek perhaps by way of a Semitic intermediary. However, Vycichl and Hoch reject this idea, noting that such an originally Egyptian word would be expected to yield Hebrew *סַק rather than שַׂק. Instead, they posit that the Coptic and Greek words are both borrowed from Semitic, with the Coptic word perhaps developing via Egyptian sꜣgꜣ.
Sense evolution
* “Pillage” senses from the use of sacks in carrying off plunder. From Middle French sac, shortened from the phrase mettre à sac (“put it in a bag”), a military command to pillage; also parallel meaning with Italian sacco (“plunder”), from Medieval Latin saccō (“pillage”). From Vulgar Latin saccare (“to plunder”), from saccus (“sack”). See also ransack. American football “tackle” sense from this “plunder, conquer” root.
* “Removal from employment” senses attested since 1825; the original formula was “to give (someone) the sack”, likely from the notion of a worker going off with his tools in a sack, or being given such a sack for his personal belongings as part of an expedient severance. Idiom exists earlier in French (on luy a donné son sac, 17c.) and Middle Dutch (iemand den zak geven). English verb in this sense recorded from 1841. Current verb, to sack (“to fire”) carries influence from the forceful nature of “plunder, tackle” verb senses.
* Slang meaning “bunk, bed” is attested since 1825, originally nautical, likely in reference to sleeping bags. The verb meaning “go to bed” is recorded from 1946.
* Slang meaning "scrotum" is an ellipsis of ballsack.

doublet

He twisted his ankle sliding into the sack at second.

(baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.


hanging

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

hanging breaking ball

hanging slider

(baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.


말

the hanja entry at 末 for Sino-Korean compounds of 말

Coordinate term: 초(初) (cho, “top (of an inning)”)

9회 말


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).


shade

en-verb

shade (third-person singular simple present shades, present participle shading, simple past and past participle shaded)

shades (present singular third-person)
shading (participle present)
shaded (participle past)
shaded (past)

From Middle English schaden, from the noun.

Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count.

(intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.


load

load (third-person singular simple present loads, present participle loading, simple past loaded, past participle loaded or (archaic) loaden)

loads (present singular third-person)
loading (participle present)
loaded (past)
loaded (participle past)
loaden (archaic participle past)

The sense of “burden” first arose in the 13th century as a secondary meaning of Middle English lode, loade, which had the main significance of “way, course, journey”, from Old English lād (“course, journey; way, street, waterway; leading, carrying; maintenance, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laidō (“leading, way”), Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”).
Cognate with Middle Low German leide (“entourage, escort”), German Leite (“line, course, load”), Swedish led (“way, trail, line”), Icelandic leið (“way, course, route”)). As such, load is a doublet of lode, which has preserved the older meaning.
Most likely, the semantic extension of the Middle English substantive arose by conflation with the (etymologically unrelated) verb lade; however, Middle English lode occurs only as a substantive; the transitive verb load (“to charge with a load”) is recorded only in the 16th century (frequently in Shakespeare),
and (except for the participle laden) has largely supplanted lade in modern English.

cog

He walks to load the bases.

(transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases


bean

en-verb

bean (third-person singular simple present beans, present participle beaning, simple past and past participle beaned)

beans (present singular third-person)
beaning (participle present)
beaned (participle past)
beaned (past)

From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic *baunu, from Proto-Germanic *baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene, bein (“bean”), West Frisian bean (“bean”), Dutch boon (“bean”), German Bohne (“bean”),
Swedish böna (“bean”),
Danish bønne (“bean”), Norwegian bønne (“bean”), Icelandic baun (“bean”), Latin faba (“bean”), Russian боб (bob, “bean”), Serbo-Croatian бо̏б/bȍb. Doublet of fava.

The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.

Though I shall have to exercise an iron self-restraint to keep me from beaning that pie-faced little hornswoggler Mrs Bertram Wooster, nee Wickham, with the shaker.
[...]
 dudgeon might easily lead her to reach for the ginger ale bottle and bean me with it.

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX and XI:

(chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.


glove

From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”), from Proto-Indo-European *lāp-, *lēp-, *lep- (“flat”). Cognate with Scots gluve, gluive (“glove”), Icelandic glófi (“glove”). Related to Middle English lofe, lufe (“palm of the hand”). More at loof.

gloss

"glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">glōfan</i> (“gloves”)

der

Frederico had a great glove, but he couldn't hit a curveball, so he never broke into the pros.

(baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.


glove

en-verb

glove (third-person singular simple present gloves, present participle gloving, simple past and past participle gloved)

gloves (present singular third-person)
gloving (participle present)
gloved (participle past)
gloved (past)

He gloved the line drive for the third out.

(baseball, transitive) To catch the ball in a baseball mitt.


knock out of the box

knock out of the box (third-person singular simple present knocks out of the box, present participle knocking out of the box, simple past and past participle knocked out of the box)

knocks out of the box (present singular third-person)
knocking out of the box (participle present)
knocked out of the box (participle past)
knocked out of the box (past)

(baseball) To cause a pitcher to be replaced by heavy hitting.


clout

en-noun

clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)

From Middle English clout, from Old English clūt, from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). The sense “influence, especially political” originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German klōz (“lump”), whence German Kloß, and dialect Russian глуда (gluda). See also cleat.

der

'... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'

2011 August 17, Michael Vega, “Triple double”, in The Boston Globe, page C1:


barrel

From Middle English barel, from Anglo-Norman baril, Old French baril, bareil (“barrel”), of uncertain origin. An attempt to link baril to Old French barre (“bar, bolt”) (compare Medieval Latin barra (“bar, rod”)) via assumed Vulgar Latin *barrīculum meets the phonological requirement, but fails to connect the word semantically. The alternate connection to Frankish *baril, *beril or Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌻𐍃 (bērils, “container for transport”), from Proto-Germanic *barilaz, *bērilaz (“barrel, jug, container”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, transport”), is more plausible as it connects not only the form of the word but also the sense; equivalent to bear + -le. Compare also Old High German biril (“jug, large pot”), Luxembourgish Bärel, Bierel (“jug, pot”), Old Norse berill (“barrel for liquids”), Old English byrla (“barrel of a horse, trunk, body”). More at bear.

vat

round vessel made from staves bound with a hoop

For quotations using this term, see Citations:barrel.

(baseball) A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.


palaa

palan (first-person indicative present singular)
en pala (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen palanut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole palanut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
palat (indicative present second-person singular)
et pala (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet palanut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole palanut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
palaa (indicative present singular third-person)
ei pala (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on palanut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole palanut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
palamme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme pala (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme palaneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole palaneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
palatte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette pala (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette palaneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole palaneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
palavat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät pala (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat palaneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole palaneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
paletaan (indicative passive present)
ei paleta (indicative negative passive present)
on palettu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole palettu (indicative negative passive perfect)
paloin (first-person indicative past singular)
en palanut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin palanut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut palanut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
paloit (indicative past second-person singular)
et palanut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit palanut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut palanut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
paloi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei palanut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli palanut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut palanut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
paloimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme palaneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme palaneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet palaneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
paloitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette palaneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte palaneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet palaneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
paloivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät palaneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat palaneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet palaneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
palettiin (indicative passive past)
ei palettu (indicative negative passive past)
oli palettu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut palettu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
palaisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en palaisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin palanut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi palanut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
palaisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et palaisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit palanut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi palanut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
palaisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei palaisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi palanut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi palanut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
palaisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme palaisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme palaneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi palaneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
palaisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette palaisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte palaneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi palaneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
palaisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät palaisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat palaneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi palaneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
palettaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei palettaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi palettu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi palettu (conditional negative passive perfect)
pala (imperative present second-person singular)
älä pala (imperative negative present second-person singular)
palakoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön palako (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon palanut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko palanut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
palakaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme palako (first-person imperative negative plural present)
palakaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää palako (imperative negative plural present second-person)
palakoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt palako (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot palaneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko palaneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
palettakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön palettako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon palettu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko palettu (imperative negative passive perfect)
palanen (first-person potential present singular)
en palane (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen palanut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene palanut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
palanet (potential present second-person singular)
et palane (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet palanut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene palanut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
palanee (potential present singular third-person)
ei palane (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee palanut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene palanut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
palanemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme palane (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme palaneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene palaneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
palanette (plural potential present second-person)
ette palane (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette palaneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene palaneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
palanevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät palane (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät palaneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene palaneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
palettaneen (passive potential present)
ei palettane (negative passive potential present)
lienee palettu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene palettu (negative passive perfect potential)
palaa (infinitive infinitive-i)
palava (active participle present)
palettava (participle passive present)
palaakseni (first-person possessive singular)
palaaksemme (first-person plural possessive)
palaaksesi (possessive second-person singular)
palaaksenne (plural possessive second-person)
palaakseen (possessive third-person)
palaaksensa (possessive third-person)
palanut (infinitive-i-long past)
palettu (infinitive-i-long past)
palaessa (inessive second-person)
palettaessa (inessive second-person)
palama (agent)
palaessani (first-person possessive singular)
palaessamme (first-person plural possessive)
palaessasi (possessive second-person singular)
palaessanne (plural possessive second-person)
palaessaan (possessive third-person)
palaessansa (possessive third-person)
palamaton (inessive negative second-person)
palaen (instructive second-person)
palamassa (inessive third-person)
palamasta (elative third-person)
palamaan (illative third-person)
palamalla (adessive third-person)
palamatta (abessive third-person)
palaman (instructive third-person)
palettaman (instructive third-person)
palaminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
palamaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
palamaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
palamaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
palamaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
palamaisillaan (possessive third-person)
palamaisillansa (possessive third-person)

[ˈpɑ̝lɑ̝ː(ʔ)]

From Proto-Finnic *paladak, from Proto-Uralic *pala-.

(intransitive, baseball, pesäpallo, dodgeball) to be out


stretch

Esperanto: streĉi

From Middle English strecchen, from Old English streċċan (“to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”), from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch, make taut or tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)treg-, *streg-, *treg- (“stiff, rigid”). Cognate with West Frisian strekke, Dutch strekken (“to stretch, straighten”), German strecken (“to stretch, straighten, elongate”), Danish strække (“to stretch”), Swedish sträcka (“to stretch”), Dutch strak (“taut, tight”), Albanian shtriqem (“to stretch”). More at stark.

cog

time stretch analog-to-digital converter

(baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.

(baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.


sacker

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sacker.wav

The ball crossed the base before he did, but it bounded between the third sacker’s feet, and score two was marked up for Hollis Creek, with nobody out!

1910, George Randolph Chester, chapter 15, in The Early Bird, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill:

1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural, New York: Time Reading Program, 1966, “Batter Up!” p. 56,
About forty years ago Pop was the third sacker for the old Sox when they got into their first World Series after twenty years.

2009, John H. Ritter, New York: Philomel, Chapter 35, p. 226,
Reinspired, he sprang from the dugout and ran out to second base so quickly, the Chicago second sacker, Cal McVey, was still walking in from shallow right field.

(baseball, softball, in combination) A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).


tag

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

The tag was applied at second for the final out.

(heading) Involving being tagged physically.

(baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

polttaminen

baseball: instance of touching the baserunner with the ball to rule him "out"


tag

en-verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

tags (present singular third-person)
tagging (participle present)
tagged (participle past)
tagged (past)

He really tagged that ball.

(transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.

He tagged the runner for the out.

(transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.


organization

en-noun

organization (countable and uncountable, plural organizations)

/ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən/

/ˌɔɹɡənɪˈzeɪʃən/

/ˌɔɹɡnɪˈzeɪʃən/

/ˌɔɹɡənaɪˈzeɪʃən/

/ˌɔɹˈɡænɪzeɪʃən/

Borrowed from Middle French organisation, from Medieval Latin organizātiō; by surface analysis, organize + -ation.

bor+

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 712. Party

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 709. Cooperation

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class VI § 968. Lawyer

He's been in the Dodgers' organization since 2003.

(baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.


strand

en-verb

strand (third-person singular simple present strands, present participle stranding, simple past and past participle stranded)

strands (present singular third-person)
stranding (participle present)
stranded (participle past)
stranded (past)

* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand, Icelandic strönd.
* (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.

der

Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

(transitive, baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.


speedball

en-noun

speedball (countable and uncountable, plural speedballs)


left field

left field (countable and uncountable, plural left fields)

The double, by pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra, curved sharply toward foul ground in deep left field but then changed its mind and hit the line instead—a big hit, and a smile at last from the great and enigmatically difficult game.

(baseball) The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to the left of a person standing on home plate and facing the pitcher.

(baseball) The defensive position in the outfield to the left.


delivery

delivery (countable and uncountable, plural deliveries)

From Middle English deliveri et al., from Anglo-Norman, from Old French delivrer.

His delivery has a catch in it.

Here is the delivery; ... strike three!


사

the hanja entry at 死 for Sino-Korean compounds of 사


bloop

en-verb

bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)

bloops (present singular third-person)
blooping (participle present)
blooped (participle past)
blooped (past)

onom

Imitative

(baseball) To make a hit just beyond the infield.


bloop

Imitative


bunter

Glavine was a renowned bunter of the ball.


command

en-noun

command (countable and uncountable, plural commands)

From Middle English commanden, commaunden, comaunden, comanden, from Old French comander, from Late Latin commandāre, from Latin commendāre. Compare commend (a doublet), and mandate.

He's got good command tonight.

(baseball) The degree of control a pitcher has over his pitches.


triple

PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English triple (also þripell), from Latin triplus. Doublet of treble.

The shortstop hit a triple to lead off the ninth.


triple

en-verb

triple (third-person singular simple present triples, present participle tripling, simple past and past participle tripled)

triples (present singular third-person)
tripling (participle present)
tripled (participle past)
tripled (past)

The batter tripled into the gap.


triple

Semi-learned term resulting from a modification, under the influence of the Latin etymology, of Old French treble, itself from Latin triplus.


bunt

en-noun

bunt (countable and uncountable, plural bunts)

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

The bunt was fielded cleanly.

(baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.

The manager will likely call for a bunt here.

(baseball, softball) The act of bunting.


bunt

en-verb

bunt (third-person singular simple present bunts, present participle bunting, simple past and past participle bunted)

bunts (present singular third-person)
bunting (participle present)
bunted (participle past)
bunted (past)

Jones bunted the ball.

(transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.

Jones bunted.

(intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.


duff

en-noun

duff (countable and uncountable, plural duffs)

Uncertain; probably related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”).


looper

With one out and runners on second and third, Cavan Biggio hit a looper up the middle that eluded hustling shortstop Tim Anderson in short centre field.

2022 June 22, Jay Cohen, “Blue Jays' woes continue as Harrison's walk-off single in 12th inning wins it for White Sox”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2022-06-25:

(baseball) Synonym of blooper (“a fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders”).


balk

From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Cognate with Dutch balk (“balk”), German Balken (“balk”), Italian balcone (“balcony”).

(baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.


mound

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”).

cog

The pitcher was waiting at the mound.

(baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.


foul

en-adj

foul (comparative fouler, superlative foulest)

fouler (comparative)
foulest (superlative)

Inherited from Middle English foul, from Old English fūl (“foul, dirty, unclean, impure, vile, corrupt, rotten, stinking, guilty”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūl, from Proto-Germanic *fūlaz (“foul, rotten”), from Proto-Indo-European *puH- (“to rot”).
Cognate with Dutch vuil (“foul, dirty, filthy, obscene, lewd”), German faul (“foul, rotten, putrid, lazy”), German Low German fuul (“foul, rotten, putrid”), Faroese fúlur (“foul”), Icelandic fúll (“foul, rotten, sullen”), Danish ful (“nasty, ugly”), Norwegian Bokmål ful (“clever, sly”), Norwegian Bokmål ful (“clever, sly”) and Swedish ful (“ugly, dirty, bad”), and through Indo-European, with Albanian fëlliq (“to make dirty”), Latin puter (“rotten”). More at putrid.
Ancient Greek φαῦλος (phaûlos, “bad”) is a false cognate inasmuch as it is not from the same etymon, instead being cognate to few.

cog

Jones hit foul ball after foul ball.

(baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.

оплетен

having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement


foul

en-verb

foul (third-person singular simple present fouls, present participle fouling, simple past and past participle fouled)

fouls (present singular third-person)
fouling (participle present)
fouled (participle past)
fouled (past)

Inherited from Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English fūlian (“to become foul; rot; decay”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūlēn, from Proto-Germanic *fūlāną (“to rot; decay”).

der

Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck.

(transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.

Jones fouled for strike one.

(intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.


foul

→ Cantonese: foul

→ Polish: faul

→ Russian: фол (fol)

→ Turkish: faul

Jones hit a foul up over the screen.

(baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.


prise

→ Dutch: prise

→ Greek: πρίζα (príza)

→ Persian: پریز (periz)

→ Romanian: priză

→ Turkish: priz


behind

From Middle English behinde, behinden, from Old English behindan (“on the back side of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihindan, *bihindini (“on the back side of, in the rear of, behind”), from Proto-West Germanic *bi- + *hindō (“the hind side, back part”), equivalent to be- + hind. Compare Old Saxon bihindan (“behind”, adverb), Middle High German behinter (“behind; back”).


gap

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

cog

Jones doubled through the gap.

(baseball) The regions between the outfielders.


splitter

lumper

antonym(s) of “one who prefers to split categories”

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-splitter.wav

split-finger fastball
split-finger fastball


retire

en-verb

retire (third-person singular simple present retires, present participle retiring, simple past and past participle retired)

retires (present singular third-person)
retiring (participle present)
retired (participle past)
retired (past)

/ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

From Middle French retirer (“draw back”), from Old French retirer, built from re- (“back”) + tirer (“draw, pull”), the latter from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre, of highly uncertain origin.

Jones retired Smith 6-3.

Jones makes the catch for the third out, and that retires the side.

(transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.

polttaa

baseball: to make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out


blind

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.


DFA

(baseball) Initialism of designated for assignment.


fungo

Uncertain; perhaps from Scots fung (“to fling, throw”).

The fielding coach played fungo with the outfielders to warm them up.

Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter aren’t going to China to […] hit fungoes to wide-eyed Chinese kids.

2007 January 25, Murray Chass, “Yanks Hope to Get a Jump in China”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.

He is so strong he could hit it out of the park with a fungo.


fungo

fungo (third-person singular simple present fungos, present participle fungoing, simple past and past participle fungoed)

fungos (present singular third-person)
fungoing (participle present)
fungoed (participle past)
fungoed (past)

(baseball) To take part in a fielding practice drill where a person hits fly balls intended to be caught.


bush

(baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"


shift

en-noun

shift (countable and uncountable, plural shifts)

From Middle English schiften, from Old English sċiftan (“to divide, separate into shares; appoint, ordain; arrange, organise”), from Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną, *skiptijaną, from earlier *skipatjaną (“to organise, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *skeyb- (“to separate, divide, part”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate, part”). Cognate with Scots schift, skift (“to shift”), West Frisian skifte, skiftsje (“to sort”), Dutch schiften (“to sort, screen, winnow, part”), German schichten (“to stack, layer”), Swedish skifta (“to shift, change, exchange, vary”), Norwegian skifte (“to shift”), Icelandic skipta (“to switch”). See ship.

cog

Teams often use a shift against this lefty.


stand-up

en-adj

stand-up (comparative more stand-up, superlative most stand-up)

more stand-up (comparative)
most stand-up (superlative)

stand-up double; stand-up triple

(baseball, of a hit) That allows the batter to advance to a given base (usually second or third) without having to slide.


goner

From gone + -er. First attestations around 1850.

(baseball slang) A ball hit out of the playing area for a home run.


salami

en-noun

salami (countable and uncountable, plural salamis)

From Italian salami, plural of salame (“salami”), from sale (“salt”), from Latin sal.


movement

movement (countable and uncountable, plural movements)

From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring.
Morphologically move + -ment.

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

The movement on his cutter was devastating.

(baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.


batting order

(cricket, baseball, softball) The sequence in which a side's batsmen go in to bat.


batting average

batting average (plural batting averages)

Jones has a .279 batting average.

(baseball) A statistical estimation of the hitting ability of a batter, equal to the number of hits divided by the number of official at-bats. Normally expressed as a real number instead of an average despite the name.


sink

a bathroom sink sink (canonical)
sinks (plural)

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

der

Jones has a two-seamer with heavy sink.

(uncountable) Descending motion; descent.

(baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.

Descending motion; descent.
The motion of a sinker pitch.


umpire

From a Middle English rebracketing of a noumpere as an oumpere, from Old French nonper (“odd number, not even (as a tie-breaking arbitrator)”), from non (“not”) + per (“equal”), from Latin par (“equal”). Doublet of nonpareil.

съдия

an official who oversees a game or match

The umpire called the pitch a strike.

(baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.


screen

From Middle English scren, screne (“windscreen, firescreen”), from Anglo-Norman escren (“firescreen, the tester of a bed”), Old French escren, escrein, escran (modern French écran (“screen”)), from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz (“fur, shelter, covering, screen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut, divide”).
Cognate with Dutch scherm (“screen”), German Schirm (“screen”). Doublet of scherm.
An alternative etymology derives Old French escren, escran from Old Dutch *scranc (“barrier”) (compare Middle Dutch schranc, schranke (“palisade, trellis, grid”), German Schrank (“cupboard, cabinet”), German Schranke (“fence”)), from Proto-West Germanic *skrank, from Proto-Germanic *skrankaz.

Jones caught the foul up against the screen.

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects


cutter

From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.


fielder

From Middle English feldere (“one who works in the field; rustic”), from Old English feldeware (“field-dweller”), equivalent to field + -er. The baseball sense is from 1832.

inh

(baseball, softball) A defensive player in the field.


corner

→ German: Corner

→ Japanese: コーナー (kōnā)

From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

nurkka

business: interest that is sufficient for price manipulation

The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.

(heading) Relating to the playing field.

(baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.

There are runners on the corners with just one out.

Relating to the playing field.
First base or third base.


assist

From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assistō (“stand at, bestand”, verb).

der

He had two assists in the game.

(sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals

(baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.


pickle

en-noun

pickle (countable and uncountable, plural pickles)

→ Dutch: pickles

→ French: pickles

→ Irish: picil

→ Korean: 피클 (pikeul)

→ Portuguese: picles

→ Spanish: pickles, picle

→ Welsh: picil

From Middle English pikel (“spicy sauce served with meat or fish”), borrowed from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pekel (“brine”). Cognate with Scots pikkill (“salt liquor, brine”), Saterland Frisian Piekele (“pickle, brine”), Dutch pekel (“pickle, brine”), Low German pekel, peckel, pickel, bickel (“pickle, brine”), German Pökel (“pickle, brine”).

cog

Jones was caught in a pickle between second and third.


zone

→ Korean: 존 (jon)

→ Punjabi: ਜ਼ੋਨ (zon)

From Latin zōna, from Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle, belt”).

der

That pitch was low and away, just outside the zone.


WS

en-noun

WS (countable and uncountable, plural WSs)

(baseball) Initialism of World Series, a best of seven game series played annually to determine the championship of United States professional baseball.


crank

From Dutch or Low German krank, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *krank, from Proto-Germanic *krangaz, *krankaz (“bent; weak”). Cognate with Scots crank, krank, German krank (“sick”).

(archaic, baseball, slang, 1800s) A baseball fan.


grand slam

(baseball) The hitting of a home run with the bases loaded.

gran eslam

(baseball) a home run with the bases loaded


hat trick

From hat + trick (“element of a magician’s or variety entertainer’s act; entertaining and difficult physical action”, noun). Sense 2 (“achievement of a bowler taking three wickets in three consecutive balls”)—the original sporting sense—refers to the commemorative hat formerly given as a prize to the bowler by his club.

هاتريك

three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc.

שלושער m (shloshá'ar, literally “three-gate or goal”)

གསུམ་སྦྲགས (gsum sbrags, literally “pack-of-three”)

Jones got a hat trick yesterday. Let’s see if he can do better today.

(cricket) An achievement of a bowler taking three wickets in three consecutive balls.

(by extension, sports) Three achievements in a single game, competition, season, etc., such as three consecutive wins.

(specifically, baseball, ironic) The act of striking out three times in a game.


bottom of the ninth

Bottom, from the home team's location below visitors on the scoreboard; ninth from the number of innings in a baseball game.

Hitting a home run with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth let the home team finish ahead of the visitors.

(baseball) The second part of the ninth and final inning; the end of the game.


unan

[ˈʔuː.n̪ɐn̪]

From ulunan with elision of /l/, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qulun-an (“place where one rests the head: wooden headrest”). Compare Ilongot unan, Kapampangan ulnan, Bikol Central ulunan, Cebuano unlan, Hiligaynon ulunan, Waray-Waray ulunan, Maranao olonan, Higaonon uluna, Tausug ūan, and Malagasy ondana.


closer

From Middle English closere, equivalent to close (verb) + -er.

They brought their closer in for the ninth.

(baseball) A relief pitcher who specializes in getting the last three outs of the game.


stig

is-noun

stig n (genitive singular stigs, nominative plural stig)

stigs (genitive singular)
stig (nominative plural)
stig (indefinite nominative singular)
stigið (definite nominative singular)
stig (indefinite nominative plural)
stigin (definite nominative plural)
stig (accusative indefinite singular)
stigið (accusative definite singular)
stig (accusative indefinite plural)
stigin (accusative definite plural)
stigi (dative indefinite singular)
stiginu (dative definite singular)
stigum (dative indefinite plural)
stigunum (dative definite plural)
stigs (genitive indefinite singular)
stigsins (definite genitive singular)
stiga (genitive indefinite plural)
stiganna (definite genitive plural)


opener

オープナー

baseball pitcher who starts the game, but is planned to have a short outing

The Rays debuted the opener—in which a reliever starts the game and throws anywhere from one to three innings, then gives way to a new pitcher, who will usually throw three to five as essentially a second starter—on May 19 against the Angels, using veteran righty Sergio Romo to pitch the first.

2018 August 23, Jon Tayler, “How the Tampa Bay Rays Reinvented the Concept of Starting Pitching”, in Sports Illustrated:

(baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.


foul out

A foul out was recorded on the scorecard.


foul out

en-verb

foul out (third-person singular simple present fouls out, present participle fouling out, simple past and past participle fouled out)

fouls out (present singular third-person)
fouling out (participle present)
fouled out (participle past)
fouled out (past)

He fouled out to lead off the third.

(baseball) To become out by hitting a foul ball which is caught.


give up

give up (third-person singular simple present gives up, present participle giving up, simple past gave up, past participle given up)

gives up (present singular third-person)
giving up (participle present)
gave up (past)
given up (participle past)

A good pitcher will give up very few home runs.

Fiers, who now pitches for the Oakland Athletics, has gone 27-12 with a no-hitter in two years since leaving the Astros. But the last time he faced them, on Sept. 9, he gave up nine runs, including five homers, and got just three outs.

2019 November 14, Tyler Kepner, “After Reports of Astros’ Cheating, M.L.B. Is Left to Restore Trust”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-15:

(transitive, baseball) Of a pitcher: to allow a hitter to make (a certain play).


seventh inning stretch

en-noun

seventh inning stretch (plural seventh inning stretches)

(baseball) A more extended than usual break taken between the top half and the bottom half of the seventh inning.


infield

They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.

(baseball) The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.

camp interior

baseball: The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.

Jones ran out an infield single.

(baseball) (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.

etukenttä-

baseball: (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.


lineout

(baseball) An out produced by catching a line drive.


farmhand

(baseball) A player in the minor leagues.


choke

en-verb

choke (third-person singular simple present chokes, present participle choking, simple past and past participle choked)

chokes (present singular third-person)
choking (participle present)
choked (participle past)
choked (past)

From Middle English choken (also cheken), from earlier acheken, from Old English āċēocian (“to choke”), probably derived from Old English ċēoce, ċēace (“jaw, cheek”), see cheek. Cognate with Icelandic kok (“throat”), koka (“to gulp”). See also achoke.

Take a grip with your right hand, slightly choked down from your normal grip.

2014, Roger Fredericks, The Flexible Golf Swing, page 108:

(golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.


batting

en-noun

batting (countable and uncountable, plural battings)

(cricket, baseball) The action of using a bat.


windmill

From Middle English wyndmylne, wyndmylle, equivalent to wind + mill. Cognate with Scots wyndmyln, wyndmyl, Saterland Frisian Wíendmäälne, West Frisian wynmûne, Dutch windmolen, Afrikaans windmeul, Dutch Low Saxon windmölle (Achterhooks), wiendmeule (Drents, Veluws), German Low German Windmöhl, German Windmühle, Danish vindmølle, Norwegian Bokmål vindmølle, Norwegian Nynorsk vindmølle, vindmylne, Swedish vindmölla, Icelandic vindmylla.

(baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.


pill

* From Middle English pille (also pillem), a borrowing from Middle Low German pille or Middle Dutch pille (whence Dutch pil), probably from Latin pila, pilula.
* (persuade or convince): Generalized from red pill.

"Strike two!" bawled the umpire. I threw the pill back to Tom with a heart which drummed above the noise of the rooters along the side lines.

Mr. Fisher contributed to the Sox effort when he threw the pill past second baseman Rath after Felsch hit him a comebacker.

2002, John Klima, Pitched Battle: 35 of Baseball's Greatest Duels from the Mound:


willow

willow (countable and uncountable, plural willows)

From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).

(baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.