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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inning
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
scoreless
▪ The Giants relievers turned in a much-needed solid performance, tossing five scoreless innings.
▪ Left-hander Joey Eischen and right-hander Mike Harkey each pitched two scoreless innings.
▪ Ismael Valdes pitched four scoreless innings and the Dodgers defeated the Expos 3-1 in a game rained out after five innings.
▪ Between May 28 and June 30, Slocumb pitched 12 2 / 3 scoreless innings.
▪ He was outstanding, working three scoreless innings, only giving up a walk.
▪ In his second exhibition start, Tom Candiotti pitched four scoreless innings.
▪ Hitchcock began with three scoreless innings, long enough for the offense to give him a 3-0 lead.
▪ Brian Anderson finished with three scoreless innings for a save.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Nagy worked 7-7 / 8 innings, allowing nine hits while walking three other batters and striking out four.
▪ He pitched the third inning and allowed two runs on four hits.
▪ Cone lasted only 3-3 / 4 innings, allowing six runs and seven hits.
▪ Nagy started Game 2, working 5-7 / 8 innings while allowing eight hits and four runs.
give
▪ He was outstanding, working three scoreless innings, only giving up a walk.
▪ Ace Mark Leiter pitched four innings, giving up a run, walking two and striking out two.
pitch
▪ Left-hander Joey Eischen and right-hander Mike Harkey each pitched two scoreless innings.
▪ Ismael Valdes pitched four scoreless innings and the Dodgers defeated the Expos 3-1 in a game rained out after five innings.
▪ He pitched more than an inning 10 times in Chicago this year.
▪ Maddux pitched eight shutout innings and could have gone nine or 10 more.
▪ In his second exhibition start, Tom Candiotti pitched four scoreless innings.
▪ Right-hander Ismael Valdes started and pitched three innings.
▪ He pitched the third inning and allowed two runs on four hits.
▪ Will Cunnane, a former Marlin, pitched two stout innings, running his scoreless streak to 13 1 / 3 innings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
he/she had a good innings
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After all, Greg Maddux enjoyed the same strike zone and struck out nine in seven innings.
▪ Airoso hit the other home run in the inning, a three-run shot.
▪ Five of his first six Test innings were ducks and three of his four centuries have been doubles.
▪ Four starts in a row this month, he gave up at least five runs and was gone by the sixth inning.
▪ He has given up two earned runs and no walks in eight innings.
▪ The innings faltered towards the end, but 264 still looked enough.
▪ The foursome has allowed 23 earned runs and 32 hits in its past 161 / 3 innings.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inning

Inn \Inn\ ([i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inned ([i^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Inning.] To take lodging; to lodge. [R.]
--Addison.

Inning

Inning \In"ning\, n. [AS. innung, fr. in in, prep. & adv.]

  1. Ingathering; harvesting. [Obs.]
    --Holland.

  2. The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc., each period during which both teams get one turn each at bat; as, in baseball there are nine innings to a complete game; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.

  3. pl. Lands recovered from the sea.
    --Ainsworth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inning

Old English innung "a taking in, a putting in," gerundive of innian "get within, put or bring in," from inn (adv.) "in" (see in). Meaning "a team's turn in a game" first recorded 1735, usually plural in cricket, singular in baseball.

Wiktionary
inning

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 against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game. 2 (context softball English) A similar period of play. 3 (context billiards English) A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul. 4 A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act. 5 (context obsolete English) Harvested crop. 6 (context obsolete English) Lands recovered from the sea.

WordNet
inning

n. a period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat [syn: frame]

Wikipedia
Inning (disambiguation)

Inning may refer to:

  • Inning, a segment of a game in baseball and softball
    • Innings pitched, the number of innings a pitcher has completed
  • Innings, a segment of a game in cricket
  • Inning, land reclamation; innings, reclaimed land
  • towns:
    • Inning am Ammersee, a town in Landkreis Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany
    • Inning am Holz, a town in Landkreis Erding in Bavaria, Germany
Inning

An inning in baseball, softball, and similar games is the basic unit of play, consisting of two halves or frames, the "top" (first half) and the "bottom" (second half). In each half, one team bats until three outs are made, with the other team playing defense. A full game typically is scheduled for six, seven, or nine innings, although this may be shortened due to weather or extended in the event that the score is tied at the end of the scheduled innings.

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.