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Periods when strikes are called
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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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the batting turn of a cricket player or team
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.