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Glossary of baseball terms

This is an alphabetical list of selected unofficial and specialized terms, phrases, and other jargon used in baseball, along with their definitions, including illustrative examples for many entries.

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Around the horn

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Overview

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A-Ball or Class A

AA

AAA

AAAA player

Ace

American League (AL)

American League Championship Series (ALCS)

Around the horn

Arsonist

Aspirin

Associate team

Asterisk

At bat

Automatic double

Backdoor breaking ball

Backup

Bad-ball hitter

Balk

Ball in play

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Bandbox

Bang

Banjo hitter

Baseball Annie

Bases loaded

Bat

Bat around

Bat flip

Bat the ball

Batter's eye

Battery

Batting average

BB

BBCOR

Bean

Beat out

Bench jockey

Big as a grapefruit

Big swing

Bingle

Blistered

Bloop curve

Blooper

Blow

Blow open

Blown save

Boner

Bonus baseball

Booted

Bottom of the inning

Bottom dropped out of it

BP

Brand new ball game

Break open the game

Bronx Bombers

Bronx cheer

Buck and change

Bug on the rug

Bugs Bunny change-up

Bullpen

Bunt

Bush league

Butcher boy

Cactus League

Call-up

Can of corn

Captain Hook

Carve up

Catbird seat

Catcher's interference

Changeup

Charging the mound

Chase

Chavez Ravine

Cheap run

Checked swing

Chinese home run

Chopper

Choke up

Clean hit

Clean inning

Climbing the ladder

Closer

Close the book

Clubhouse

Clutch

Collar

Contact hitter

Control artist

Cooperstown

Corked bat

Corner outfielder

Cornerman

Covering a base

Crack of the bat

Crank

Crossed up

Crowd the plate

Cue the ball

Cut fastball

Cut down on his swing

Cut the ball off

Cut-off

Cut-off man

Dance

Dead arm

Dead ball

Dead pull hitter

Deep in the count

Defensive indifference

Deliver

Designated hitter

Deuce

Deuces wild

DFA

Dial long distance

Diamond

Disabled list

Diving over the plate

Doctoring the ball

Dot

Double clutch

Double switch

Double up

Down the middle

Down the stretch

Draw

Dribbler

Drive

Drop ball

Duck snort

Due

Dugout

Earned run

Eat the ball

Eephus

Eject

Emergency starter

Emery ball

Error

Excuse me swing

Extend the arms

Extra out

Fall classic

Fall off the table

Fan interference

Fancy Dan

Farm team

Field

Fielder

Fielder's choice

Figger filbert

Fight off a pitch

Filthy

Find a hole

Find his swing

Fireballer

Fireman

Fireplug

First-ball hitter

FL or F.L.

Flag down

Fluke hit

Foul off

Foul pole

Four-fingered salute

Frame

Free pass

Freeze the hitter

Gas

General manager

Gem

Get a good piece of it

Getaway day lineup

Get off the schneid

Glove

Go-ahead run

Go deep

Go quietly

Gold glove

Golden sombrero

Good eye

Good hit, no field

Goodbye Mr. Spalding!

Grab some pine

Grandstand play

Granny

Grapefruit League

Great seats

Green light

Groove a pitch

Ground rules

Gun down

Gyroball

Hack

Hall of Fame

Hall of Very Good

Hammer

Hang

Happy

Hat trick

Heavy hitter

Hit

Hit and run

Hit away

Hitch in his swing

Hitter's park

Hole in his swing

Hole in the lineup

Home game/home team

Home run derby

Home run trot

Homer

Hook

Hook foul

Horsehide

Hot

Hot stove league

House by the side of the road

Howitzer

Human rain delay

Inherited runner

In jeopardy

  • Live Live ball (baseball)

Injured list

Innings eater

Inside the ball

Interleague play

Internet baseball awards

Interstate

In the books

In play

Jelly legs

Jerk

Junk

Junkball pitcher

Keep off the boards

Keep the hitter honest

Keep the line moving

Knee-buckler

Knock

Lace

  • McCann Brian McCann (baseball)

Lady Godiva

LAIM

Laser show

Leather

Left-handed hitter

Left on base

Leg out

Letter high

Lift

  • Casey Sean Casey (baseball)

Lights-out

Linda Ronstadt

Line drive

Live-ball era

Lively fastball/life on the ball

Lock him up

LOOGY

Loss

Loud out

Maddux

Make the pitcher work

Manfred man

Manufacturing runs

Mendoza Line

Middle of the order hitter

Miscue

Miss some spots

Mix up pitches

Moneyball

Moonshot

Mop up

Mound visit

Mow 'em down

Murderer's row

MVP

NA

Nailed

Nails

Next batter's box

NLCS or N.L.C.S.

No-doubter

NRI

Official game

Off day

On a line

One-hitter

On the interstate

On the throw

Out pitch

  • Rodriguez Francisco Rodríguez (Venezuelan pitcher)

Overthrow

PECOTA

Pennant race

Phantom tag

Picket fence

Pine tar

Pitcher's spot

PL or P.L.

Plate

Platoon

Players' manager

Playoffs

Plus plus pitch

Pop

Portsider

  • Port Port (nautical)

Position

Prep

Productive out

Pull

Punch and Judy

Purpose pitch

Push

Qualifier

Quality at bat

Quality start

Quick pitch

Quiet swing

Rain delay

Rainout

Rake

Rally cap

Reach on error

Receiver

Regulation game

Replacement player

Rhubarb

RISP

Robbed

Rookie

Roster

Rotation

Roundhouse curveball

Rubber arm

Rubber game

Rundown

Runners in scoring position

Sabermetrics

Safety squeeze

Save

Screaming line drive

Seal the win

Season

Sent to the showers

Seventh-inning stretch

Shell

Shift

Short rest

Shutout

Shuts the door

Sidearmer

Sitting on a pitch

Skids

Skip

Slap hitter

Slash line

  • Slash Slash (punctuation)

Slide

Slurve

Snap throw

Soft tosser

Sophomore jinx

Sparkplug

Spider Tack

Speed merchant

Spot starter

Square up

Stance

Stathead

Steaks

Stick it in his ear

Stick it in his pocket

Sticky stuff

Stole first

Stranded

Stretch the lineup

Stretch run

Strike

Strikeout looking

Submarine

Subway series

Summer classic

Sweet spot

Swing

Switch hitter

Take the bat out of his hands

Take-out slide

Tape measure home run

Tax evader

TB

Tee off

Terminator

Texas Leaguer

Three true outcomes

Through the wickets

Tilt

Tipping

Tomahawk

Tommy John surgery

Tore the cover off the ball

Touchdown

Track down

Two-sport player

Two-way player

UA or U.A.

Uecker seats

Ukulele hitter

Unassisted play

Uncontested steal, undefended steal

Up in the zone

Upper decker

  • Dip Dipping tobacco

Up the middle

VORP

Wave

Web gem

Wheel play

Whitewash

Wild in the strike zone

Winter leagues

Wrapped around the foul pole

  • 1931 1931 Major League Baseball season

Yabo

Yank

Zeroes

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
runners failing to touch a baseinstance ofumpires will not announce potential appeal situations0.80text
batting out of orderinstance ofumpires will not announce potential appeal situations0.80text
or unchecked swings until an appeal is madeinstance ofumpires will not announce potential appeal situations0.80text
Tim Andersoninstance ofThe practice is controversial - some players0.80text
Jose Bautista have been subject to retaliation by the opposing team when they bat flipped after a home run against them. bat the ballTo hit the ball with the batinstance ofThe practice is controversial - some players0.80text
pitchersinstance ofGenerally used by weaker hitters0.80text
the catcher or pitcher can ask the home plate umpire to ask another umpire whether the batter swung at the pitchinstance ofa defensive player0.80text
the curveballinstance ofpitches0.80text
the knuckleballinstance ofpitches0.80text
it is often difficult for an umpire to judge whether a ball went through the strike zone based solely on watching the ballinstance ofpitches0.80text
particularly at the boundaries of the strike zoneinstance ofpitches0.80text
the team's standing in the pennant race may prevent such a decisioninstance ofconsiderations0.80text

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