"come to bat" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes to bat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming to bat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came to bat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come to bat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> to bat"
      },
      "expansion": "come to bat (third-person singular simple present comes to bat, present participle coming to bat, simple past came to bat, past participle come to bat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Baseball",
          "orig": "en:Baseball",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Cricket",
          "orig": "en:Cricket",
          "parents": [
            "Ball games",
            "Sports",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "68 32",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Andres Wirkmaa, The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook",
          "text": "In that case, the player who was called out for failure to come to bat properly is charged with having been put out, and whatever happened that resulted in the improper batter being put out goes into the scoring box of the batter who failed to bat in proper turn.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London",
          "text": "New Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.\nThe value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have one's turn at bat."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "cricket",
          "cricket"
        ],
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "at bat",
          "at bat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cricket, baseball) To have one's turn at bat."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "cricket",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Leslie Neal-Boylan, Nurses With Disabilities: Professional Issues and Job Retention",
          "text": "Unfortunately, if anybody above [the manager] or around her cared, they didn't come to bat for me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To argue in defense of."
      ],
      "id": "en-come_to_bat-en-verb-qHfjKtWS",
      "links": [
        [
          "defense",
          "defense"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "come to bat"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes to bat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming to bat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came to bat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come to bat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> to bat"
      },
      "expansion": "come to bat (third-person singular simple present comes to bat, present participle coming to bat, simple past came to bat, past participle come to bat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Baseball",
        "en:Cricket"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015, Andres Wirkmaa, The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook",
          "text": "In that case, the player who was called out for failure to come to bat properly is charged with having been put out, and whatever happened that resulted in the improper batter being put out goes into the scoring box of the batter who failed to bat in proper turn.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London",
          "text": "New Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.\nThe value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have one's turn at bat."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cricket",
          "cricket"
        ],
        [
          "baseball",
          "baseball"
        ],
        [
          "at bat",
          "at bat"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(cricket, baseball) To have one's turn at bat."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "cricket",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Leslie Neal-Boylan, Nurses With Disabilities: Professional Issues and Job Retention",
          "text": "Unfortunately, if anybody above [the manager] or around her cared, they didn't come to bat for me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To argue in defense of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defense",
          "defense"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "come to bat"
}