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Six outs
Answer for the clue "Six outs ", 6 letters:
inning
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n. 1 (context baseball English) A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team ...
Usage examples of inning.
Around the third inning she leaned her head against his shoulder, and Alan hesitantly put his arm around her.
For three innings neither side scored, and in the fourth each got a man across the plate, but in the fifth the All-Americas increased their score by seven runs, and the crowd, evidently thinking that the game was over, swarmed across the field like an army of Kansas grasshoppers, and Ward, ordering his men into their positions, claimed the game of Tener, who was umpiring, which the latter gave him by a technical score of 9 to 0, the score books showing 8 to 2.
Abraham Amble had been lord of his wife in the water, but his innings was over.
But the game through eight innings was scoreless and, for the most part, lacking in incident, save for a couple of double plays and a base-running blunder by the Giants which had left Carlo muttering darkly about brainlock.
Ted Worley awoke from a rare nap and debated whether to sneak to the toilet then or wait until the seventh inning.
The coach had to explain several times to his new star that iron legs are crucial to hitting, pitching, baserunning, making long throws from the outfield, and surviving the late innings of the second game of a doubleheader with a thin roster.
In the short season The Creature pitched eighteen innings in relief, struck out thirty-two batters, and finished with an earned run average of an even 1.
You could hear the kids shouting for a last innings of stickball before real darkness descended.
Los Angeles Dodgers and the Colorado Rockies were tied, 2-2, in the bottom of the eleventh inning at Coors Field on that pleasant August evening.
Twice in the first four innings the Oakland catcher has taken outside fastballs and driven doubles to the opposite field.
A team might send four hitters to the plate in an inning, for instance.
They stood like the infielders around a manager and the pitcher at a tense spot in the late innings.
In a ballpark built for sluggers, he pitched fifty-one innings with an earned run average of 1.
A lower earned run average, fewer home runs allowed, more strikeouts, and fewer walks per nine innings.
I pitched forty-seven complete games, won twenty-eight of them, led the league in most strikeouts, least hits, most innings pitched, and everything.