Crossword clues for batting
batting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Batting \Bat"ting\, n.
The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
--Mason.Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
Bat \Bat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Batted (b[a^]t"t[e^]d); p. pr.
& vb. n. Batting.]
To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
--Holland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sheets of cotton fiber," 1875, variant of obsolete bat "felted mass of fur, wool, etc.," from bat (n.1), on notion of "beaten" fabric.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context sewing English) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc 2 special cotton for surgery. Etymology 2
n. the act of someone who bats vb. (present participle of bat English)
WordNet
n. nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate [syn: chiropteran]
(baseball) a turn batting; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got 4 hits in 4 at-bats" [syn: at-bat]
a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash [syn: squash racket, squash racquet]
a bat used in playing cricket [syn: cricket bat]
a club used for hitting a ball in various games
n. (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base
stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber [syn: batten]
v. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids" [syn: flutter]
have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
use a bat; "Who's batting?"
beat thoroughly in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: clobber, drub, thrash, lick]
See bat
Wikipedia
Sachin Tendulkar is the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket. Photo shows him getting ready to face a delivery. In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke. The term specialist batsman is also used generically to describe players who specialise in batting (as opposed to e.g. bowlers who specialise in bowling), and the term bowler is also used in this context. The latter term can, however, refer to any player during their turn at bat. In women's cricket, the term batswoman is sometimes encountered, as is batter, but the "male" form is widely used in both men's and women's cricket.
During an innings two members of the batting side are on the pitch at any time: the one facing the current delivery from the bowler is denoted the striker, while the other is the non-striker. When a batsman is out, he is replaced by a teammate. This continues until the end of the innings or until 10 of the team members are out, whereupon the other team gets a turn to bat.
Batting tactics and strategy vary depending on the type of match being played as well as the current state of play. The main concerns for the batsmen are not to lose their wicket and to score as many runs as quickly as possible. These objectives generally conflict – to score quickly, risky shots must be played, increasing the chance that the batsman will be dismissed, while the batsman's safest choice with a careful wicket-guarding stroke may be not to attempt any runs at all. Depending on the situation, batsmen may forgo attempts at run-scoring in an effort to preserve their wicket, or may attempt to score runs as quickly as possible with scant concern for the possibility of being dismissed.
As with all other cricket statistics, batting statistics and records are given much attention and provide a measure of a player's effectiveness. The main statistic for batting is a player's batting average. This is calculated by dividing the number of runs he has scored, not by the innings he has played, but by the number of times he has been dismissed. In limited overs cricket an additional important statistic is the strike rate, the rate at which a batsman scores his runs (number of runs scored divided by number of balls faced).
Sir Donald Bradman set many batting records, some as far back as the 1930s and still unbeaten, and he is widely regarded as the greatest batsman of all time.
Batting may refer to:
- Batting (baseball), the act of attempting to hit a ball thrown by the pitcher with a baseball bat, in order to score runs
- Batting (cricket), the act of defending one's wicket with the cricket bat while attempting to score runs
- Batting (material), a layer of insulation between a top layer of patchwork and a layer of backing material in quilting
In baseball, batting is the act of facing the opposing pitcher and trying to produce offense for one's team. A batter or hitter is a person whose turn it is to face the pitcher. The three main goals of batters are to become a baserunner, drive runners home, or advance runners along the bases for others to drive home, but the techniques and strategies they use to do so vary. Hitting uses a motion that is virtually unique to baseball, one that is rarely used in other sports. Hitting is unique because unlike most sports movements in the vertical plane of movement hitting involves rotating in the horizontal plane.
Usage examples of "batting".
The general manager of a Rotisserie team measured his success by toting up batting averages, RBIs, stolen bases, and so on.
Through his batting helmet he heard muffled cheers from the Thurston Thrashers grandstand.
Tommy pulled off his batting helmet and shook out his long, black hair.
His right hand swatted the fist out of the way like a kitten batting at a ball of yam.
On the run and panting-hot, Akarr located Riker more by sound than by sight, batting giant leaves away from his face and ducking --at the very last moment--a huge sticky mess of an insect nest that seemed to materialize at eye level.
Billy hit and Sam would throw batting practice with no one there but Billy and the scouts.
Alderson has a clear memory from earlier that spring of 1990, of Billy Beane taking batting practice.
To ensure they never lost that lead, Alderson routinely reviewed the batting statistics of the teams, and leaned on managers whose teams were not walking.
It should be obvious that the purpose of an offense is not to compile a high batting average.
The girls he dropped in the sandbox beside the courts, Bitsy he asked to hit grounders at him off the batting tee.
Boggs in the batting cage during spring training, trying to learn whatever he could from the master.
Rice called him out in the clubhouse, in front of his teammates, and ridiculed him for having a batting average in the .
Past Scott Hatteberg and Greg Myers, the two lefties on the bench who had thought they had the night off, rushing back through the clubhouse to the batting cage to take some practice swings, in case they are asked to pinch-hit.
Scott Hatteberg running from the batting cage to the tunnel that leads to the Oakland dugout.
Behind him a hundred or more players in line slowly marched toward the slab of rubber which marked the batting position.