• accomplish a no-hitter
• allow __ hits over eight scoreless innings
• America's pastime
• add one more strike to what obviously should have been a ball
• admitted into the Little League Hall of Excellence
• All-Star ballot
• across the letters
• advance into scoring position
• and-run
• affiliate

• bunt for a hit
• bunt single
• battery
• ball player
• batting genius
• blast the ball over the right-field wall
• bush leaguer
• bunt well
• between left and center field
• baseball stirrups

• change-up
• catch-ball
• crush a run-scoring triple to deep left-center field
• catch
• clinch number
• connect
• check a runner
• come-backer
• caught in a rundown
• Chinese blow

• drawn-in outfield
• double to center
• decoy rule
• drive in __ runs
• deliver a triple over the left fielder's head
• dramatic game-ending double
• drive in
• deliver a double over the right fielder's head
• dramatic finish
• drama that began with two outs in the final inning

• escape without being scored upon
• ER
• end of fourth
• end of sixth
• escape without allowing a run
• exhibition game
• end 5th
• end 4th
• end 6th
• extra inning

• final out
• first sacker
• field manager
• fork-ball
• fly to left
• fielding average
• final game of the first half of the season
• first
• force in
• forced-out

• get the Gold Glove award for the __th consecutive year
• get a jump
• ground to second
• glove man
• go right at
• get someone at first
• gallop home
• get to the pitcher for __ runs
• get credit for double-digit victories
• ground out to second

• hitting on the interstate
• homer to left
• have __ strikeouts through __ innings
• half rubber
• home field
• hot stove league
• home run zone
• hurler derby
• high pitch
• hit a sacrifice bunt that puts someone out

• in spring debut
• inside heat
• in the bottom of
• innings pitched
• initial sack
• infield back
• in someone's first season with
• infield fly rule
• issue a run-scoring walk
• in the big leagues

• jammed bags DP
• jammed bags double play
• judge hittable
• jammed bags
• junk-ball
• jack
• jam
• junk baller
• judged hittable

• knock a triple over the right fielder's head
• knee-high pitch
• knock a run-scoring triple to deep left-center field
• knock a double over the left fielder's head
• knock a run-scoring double to deep right-center field
• knothole club
• keep one's wicket up
• keystone man
• knuckle ball
• knock a run-scoring double to deep left-center field

• left-handed swing
• LWT
• low-ball hitter
• line-drive
• last half
• LOB
• left
• left over
• left-handed specialist
• lose a fly in the sun for a triple

• minor-league
• mix up one's pitches
• make one's first mound appearance
• make the cut
• minimum salary for a major-league player
• middle bag
• make it a third out
• make the play
• move into starting rotation
• miss first base

• nasty hop
• nip
• not yet ready to give up the pennant race mathematically
• no-hit no-run
• number of pitches
• nasty pitch
• NLCS
• no game
• no-hitter
• non-trade clause

• out in front
• old-timers' baseball game
• one for one
• OPS
• out-course
• one-two-three
• OAV
• over the fence in the right
• overpower
• option out

• pop up
• pitch a curve ball
• prospect in the minor league
• park a home run
• pitch a straight ball
• pepper
• pitching mound
• pitch with all one's strength
• play it off the wall
• pitch a curve

• quick snap throw
• quick release
• quick-toss
• quadruple-A player
• quality start

• rubber game
• rhubarb
• RHP
• record one's __th save of the season
• record the 2,000th hit of one's career
• rotation pitcher
• reach first base
• RBI triple
• routine grounder
• running catch

• slap hitter
• short right field
• sit and get hit
• SP
• suicide squeeze
• scrub team
• slug bunt
• spot starter
• spot pitcher
• sac fly

• two-run double
• thirty-thirty guy
• throw the runner out to end the inning
• TR
• throwing error in left
• turn the contest into a pitcher's duel
• throw out the ceremonial first pitch
• take away a home run from
• tweener
• three and one

• up
• underhand throwing
• umpire's broom
• unemployed ballplayer market
• underhand pitcher
• up the middle
• utterly dominate the season
• unconditional release
• uncork one
• Uncle Charlie

• velocity of pitching
• veteran slugger
• velocity and location
• validator
• vast wasteland of automatic outs

• winning run
• walks plus hits per inning pitched
• win the Japan Series for the first time in __ years
• with only one out
• without men on
• winning run at first
• WS
• worm burner
• walk the bases full
• waiver

• yank
• yield __ runs in the seventh inning
• yank a pitcher
• Yankee Clipper

• zone
• zinger
• Zatopek style

• 3B
• __ seasons straight in the Central League cellar
• 5-4-3 double play
• .300 season
• __ games over .500
• .300
• __-career home runs
• __-bagger
• 1B
• __ errors a season
• 40-40
• 1-2-3 inning
• __-day rotation
• 20-20 man
• 6-4-3
• .300 batting average
• __th-inning stretch
• 5-4-3 triple play
• __-inning tie
• __th career homer
• 6-4-3 double play
• 30-30
• 40-40 club
• 4-A player
• __ game winning streak
• 0.4
• 1-2-3
• 5-4-3
• __th save of someone's career
• __th career win
• __ consecutive strikeouts
• __-game losing streak
• __th pitcher of the game
• __ seasons straight in the Pacific League cellar
• 2B
• 30-30 club
• 30-30 player
• 30-30 man
• 30-30 guy
• .300 hitter