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A few baseball terms for you to enjoy.
- A Shot: A well hit ball
- Ball looked like a watermelon coming in: High fast ball pitch,
usually swung at and missed
- Baltimore Chop: Ball hit in front of the plate that takes a high
hop over the infielders
- Bang bang: A quick play
- Big Fly : A home run
- Birddog : A baseball scout who is not officially affiliated with a
team
- Bench warmer: (other phases; riding pine, getting splinters,
sitting out) player who spends a lot of time in the dugout
- Bleacher coach: parents and/or spectators who think they know
what's best for the team.
- Blooper: Short pop fly just over the infielders
- Bringing it: Throwing smoke
- Brush back: High and tight pitch
- Buckled his knee's: A pitch that moved the batter back
- Can of corn: A fly ball that is easy for a player to catch; usually
refers to a fly ball to the outfield, but can also be used for an infield pop
up. (old school term)
- Cannon: Strong arm, also referred to as a gun
- Cleat chaser: Female fan that wants more than an autograph
- Cheese: Fast Pitch
- Chin music: A pitch high aims tight right under the batters chin
- Cycle : The act of hitting a single, double, triple and home run in
the same game
- Digging in: What a batter does when entering the batters box
- Dieing Quail: Weakly hit ball
- Dinger: A home run or the impression of a baseball on the hood of
your vehicle
- Dirt Dipper: Someone who places the dirt from a baseball infield in
his mouth
- Dirty : Tough to hit
- Dogging it : Being lazy.
- Double header: 2 games played in a row
- Down Town: Where homers go to die
- Dust 'em off : What a pitcher does to a batter who squeezes the
plate ... usually a fast ball up and in ... to intimidate the batter and set
up the outside pitch
- Deuce : Curve Ball
- Fanned: Swinging strike out
- Filthy : A pitch that has just gone way beyond 'nasty' ... usually
involves embarrassing the batter
- Gapers: A Ball hit in the gaps between outfielders
- Gleek or gleeking: Unique way of spitting
- GLM: Good looking Mom (my favorite one)
- Going yard: A home run batted ball
- Grand Slam: A bases loaded batted homerun hit by the batter scoring
4 runs
- Gun: Strong arm, also referred to as a cannon
- Hammer: Curve Ball
- Handcuffed: Inside pitch
- Hanger: A curve ball that doesn't break
- Hang One: When a pitcher throws an off-speed pitch that doesn't
move and is up and over the plate, ... often results in a Home Run
- He Can Rake: He Can Hit
- Heater: Fast Ball
- Hit the showers: Pulled from the game and going to the locker room
- Hole Shot: A ball hit in a gap between any two outfields
- Hook: Curve Ball
- Horseshoe: Area signed by players on baseball
- Hot Corner: Third Base
- Homer: (1) A batted ball that flies over the fence in fair
territory, or; (2) An umpire whose calls tend to favor the home team
- Hotdog: A player who shows off
- In-the-Hole: A ball hit between 2 fielders
- In the zone: Everything is coming together for a player or team
- Jacked: Home Run
- Jump on the ball: What batters do to hanging pitches
- Laser beam: A fastball
- Leather :Baseball glove
- Meatball: A pitch that throws easy to hit baseballs
- Money: A player who makes the big plays
- Nasty pitch: Pitch with unusual movement, may also be called dirty
or filthy
- No-no: No Hitter
- Out of Gas: A pitcher that is used up or tried
- Painting the black: A pitch on the edge of the plate for a strike
- Pea rod: Travel of the ball in a straight line
- Pick: The act of an infielder cleanly fielding a ground ball
- Punch & judy: Singles hitter
- Punched out : Strike out looking
- Rabbit ears: Listens to bench jockeys
- Referee : What a parent calls an ump when they've been watching way
too much football ... or if they just want to piss off the ump
- Real Deal: This player can play
- Rope: A hard hit line drive (which too often results in a multiple
base hit)
- Round Tripper: A home Run
- Seeing eye single: Hit ball through a gap but not hit hard
- Shoe string catch: Ball caught just before hitting the ground
- Snow cone : A ball caught in the tip of the webbing
- Spitter: A pitch with a foreign substance
- Squeezing the pitcher : What umpires do to pitchers with bad
attitudes ... shrink the strike zone
- Squeezing the plate : A batter moves up onto the plate to either
reach the outside corner of an expanded strike zone or trying to intimidate
the pitcher. A confident pitcher will usually come back and throw Chin
music
- Stick: Baseball Bat (preferably wooden)
- Strike: A pitch that a batter swings at or a pitch that the umpire
feels crosses the strike zone in the right spot
- Stud: Players want a be thoughts
- Sunday Hop: Easy Ground ball that bounces up to the infielder
- Table is set : Bases loaded
- Tattoo the ball : A monster hit ... not necessarily a HR, but hit
really hard, i.e., leaving an 'impression' on the ball
- Texas leaguer or lawn dart: Blooper hit over infielder.
- That ball had hair on it: (Exact meaning unclear) but usually a hot
grounder
- Throwing gas: A pitcher who is throwing fast balls
- Throwing BB's : A pitcher who's pitches are hard to see they are
moving so fast
- TJ Surgery : Rotator Cuff surgery named after ML Pitcher Tommy John
- Tossed: Getting thrown out of a game or area of play (been close
to it but never actually experienced this) and it happens after some
interaction with the umpire
- Track Star: Parent of player pacing nervously
- 'Tweener: A Ball hit in-between the infielders and outfielders
- Twin-nighter: 2 games in a row played at night
- Uncle Charley: Curve
- Uni: Short for Uniform
- Utility player: This guy may be a bench warmer or an all star
player according to his abilities to play multiple positions on the field
- Wave at the ball : What batters do when they swing at a Filthy
curve ball.
- Web Gem : Great plays highlighted on ESPN and now any great play
that would be a web gem if ESPN were there.
- Wheels, rabbit: Fast runner
- Whiffed: A swinging strike out
- Wood: A bat made of wood
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