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Prize after missing first place in a bit of sporting endeavour
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innings
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE good ▪ But he clearly still has more good Test innings in him-and this was one of them. ▪ We've had a good innings . scoreless ▪ The Giants relievers turned in a much-needed solid performance, tossing five scoreless ...
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Innings is a term of uncertain origin that is used in cricket . The same word applies to both the singular and plural forms, so a cricketer might refer to "an innings" and "both innings". This contrasts with baseball and softball in which the singular is ...
Usage examples of innings.
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.
Twice in the first four innings the Oakland catcher has taken outside fastballs and driven doubles to the opposite field.
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.