Wiktionary
n. 1 When two things are changed at once 2 (context baseball English) When two players are replaced simultaneously, typically so that a fielder can hit in the pitcher spot in the batting order.
Wikipedia
In baseball, the double switch is a type of player substitution, usually performed by a team while playing defense. The double switch is typically used to make a pitching substitution, while simultaneously placing the incoming pitcher in a more favorable spot in the batting order than was occupied by the outgoing pitcher. (On the assumption that the pitcher will be a poor hitter, the incoming pitcher will generally take the spot in the batting order of a position player who has recently been put out, so as to avoid the pitcher's making a plate appearance in the next couple of innings.) To perform a double switch (or any other substitution), the ball must be dead.
Double Switch is an adventure interactive movie video game released for Sega Mega-CD, Sega Saturn and PC. The game was produced by Digital Pictures and had a similar "trap-em-up" format to Space Panic, Heiankyo Alien, and their earlier game, Night Trap.
Double Switch may refer to:
- Double switch (baseball)
- Double-switch (basketball)
- Double Switch (video game)
- Double switching, using a multipole switch to close or open two sides of a circuit
- Double Switch (film), a film starring George Newbern
Usage examples of "double switch".
I was brought up on birds that would rather do a double switch than eat.
After throwing the double switch on the manual release he jabbed the emergency stud.
They did a double switch-they put the faker down low, and they put the real bomber up high.
If you have a double switch on the alarm circuit, with a sixty-second delay, it can be wired so that if the inside one isn't deactivated in time, you get sirens, bullhorns, calliope music, anything you might want to hear.
With an iron firmness, Chauncey's powerful, sinewy hands held the double switch levers of the impulse cannons.