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Mascots and fans during a seventh-inning stretch. In baseball in the United States and Canada, the seventh-inning stretch (also known as the Lucky 7 in Japan and Korea) is a long-standing tradition that takes place between the halves of the seventh inning of a game. Fans generally stand up and stretch out their arms and legs and sometimes walk ...
Mariano Rivera, closer for the New York Yankees, having come set Jimmy Haynes of the Cincinnati Reds, pitching from the set, just before the time of pitch. A pitcher is in the set when, with the ball, they stand on, or directly in front of—and touching—the pitching rubber, with their toes pointing toward the side (toward third base for a right-handed pitcher) and their arms apart at their ...
Pepper is a common pre-game exercise in which one player hits brisk grounders and line drives to a group of fielders who are standing about twenty feet away. The fielders throw balls to the batter, who uses a short, light swing to hit the ball on the ground towards the fielders. The fielders field the ground balls and continue tossing the ball ...
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In baseball, the bullpen (or simply the pen) is the area where relief pitchers warm up before entering a game. A team's roster of relief pitchers is also metonymically referred to as "the bullpen". These pitchers usually wait in the bullpen if they have not yet played in a game, rather than in the dugout with the rest of the team.
Once Li’s treatment is complete, Freeman will get into his pregame routine. He’ll take swings in the batting cage. He’ll stretch and take ground balls on the field.
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In baseball, shagging is the act of catching fly balls in the outfield outside the context of an actual baseball game. [1] This is most commonly done by pitchers during batting practice before a game, [2] where they assist their hitting teammates by catching or picking up their batted baseballs and throwing them back to the pitching area in the infield.