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BASEBALL PLAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) a play executed by a baseball team
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("baseball play" is a kind of...):
maneuver; manoeuvre; play (a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "baseball play"):
double play (the act of getting two players out on one play)
triple play (the act of getting three players out on one play)
pick-off (a baseball play in which a base runner is caught off base and tagged out)
squeeze play (a baseball play in which a runner on third base tries to score as the batter bunts the pitch)
