J.J. Hardy mans it

Usage examples of shortstop.

Buck Hoey, the wiseguy shortstop who’d bellyached about the first baseman who hadn’t come to practice, hopped down last, near a blue frame house with more shrubs and a prettier paint job than any house around it.

The center fielder quickly retrieved the ball and threw it in to the shortstop, who had circled back to cover the base, but too late a cloud of dust marked where Robinson had already slid in safely.

That new shortstop you have, Ripken, looks to me like he's going places.

Pop turned one of the knobs, and suddenly we heard the scratchy voice of an announcer describing a ground ball to the shortstop.

He and Danny Fitzpatrick, his shortstop, had taken endless ground balls and practiced 6-4-3 and 4-6-3 double plays till each knew in his sleep what the other was going to do.

This time he rifles one, but right at the Hampden shortstop, who barely has to move.

Then Galanti hit a ball to deep shortstop that resulted in an infield hit.

Mike Flanagan was pitching, and looked to be on his way to another Cy Young Award, and the rookie shortstop the Orioles had just brought up was playing particularly well, and looked to have a big-league future.

There was a man on second trying to look in all directions at once, ready for the shortstop to sneak in behind him for a pickoff, ready to fly at the crack of the bat.

Ted said this guy was so fuckin fast he could hit a fungo pop fly at home plate, then run out to shortstop and catch it himself.

The main character is Danny Boles, a 17 year old shortstop who comes south from Tenkiller, Oklahoma.

The next batter picked him up with a ground single between the drawn-in shortstop and third baseman.