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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
innings
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 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.
■ NOUN
test
▪ Five of his first six Test innings were ducks and three of his four centuries have been doubles.
▪ But he clearly still has more good Test innings in him-and this was one of them.
▪ Whitney had taken seven wickets in a Test innings once before: 7 for 89 against West Indies at Adelaide in 1988-89.
total
▪ This would serve also to reduce the increasingly high percentage of extras in innings totals.
▪ At Weston-super-Mare, Worcestershire are 230 for 5 in reply to Somerset's first innings total of 328.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Nagy worked 7-7 / 8 innings, allowing nine hits while walking three other batters and striking out four.
▪ 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.
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.
▪ 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.
▪ Will Cunnane, a former Marlin, pitched two stout innings, running his scoreless streak to 13 1 / 3 innings.
▪ In the Dodgers' third and final intrasquad game of the season, Valdes started and pitched two innings.
▪ Ace Mark Leiter pitched four innings, giving up a run, walking two and striking out two.
play
▪ He also had claims to be considered a genuine all-rounder, having played many attacking innings in the lower middle order.
▪ Eric Karros played six innings in a minor-league game Tuesday and was encouraged by his progress.
▪ Greg Chappell came out of a bad patch when he realised he was playing innings in his head before they happened.
▪ In the software competition, developers must play for many innings before winning the game.
win
▪ Stuart claimed the extra half hour and we won by an innings in a day.
▪ Mesa blew the save, the Florida Marlins won in 10 innings and the Tribe was denied its first championship since 1948.
Wiktionary
innings

n. 1 (context baseball English) (plural of inning English)Category:English plurals 2 (context cricket English) One side's or individual's turn to bat (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out,) or the runs scored during those timeframes. 3 (context British English) The time during which any party is in possession of power; a turn of any kind. 4 (context British euphemistic English) lifespan

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WordNet
innings

n. the batting turn of a cricket player or team

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Wikipedia
Innings

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 " inning".

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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.