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  2. Interference (baseball) - Wikipedia

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    At some levels of play, verbal as well as physical hindrance can be called for interference. For example, if a runner or other member of the offense calls out "foul" on a fair ball or "mine" on a fly ball, he may cause the defense to react differently from how they otherwise would have, resulting in an interference call.

  3. Mendoza Line - Wikipedia

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    The Mendoza Line is baseball jargon for a .200 batting average, the supposed threshold for offensive futility at the Major League level. [1] It derives from light-hitting shortstop Mario Mendoza , who failed to reach .200 five times in his nine big league seasons. [ 2 ]

  4. Fielding independent pitching - Wikipedia

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    These include home runs allowed, strikeouts, hit batters, walks, and, more recently, fly ball percentage, ground ball percentage, and (to a much lesser extent) line drive percentage. By focusing on these statistics and ignoring what happens once a ball is put in play, which – on most plays – the pitcher has little control over, DIP claims ...

  5. Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball

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    Most notably used to describe the 1927 New York Yankees, who had fearsome hitters throughout their line-up, although it was used to describe other baseball teams as early as 1905. "He was the unexpected underdog who comes out of nowhere and starts landing one uppercut after another into the chins of a murderer's [sic] row of 800-pound gorillas."

  6. Base running - Wikipedia

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    In baseball, base running is the act of running from base to base, performed by members of the team at bat. Base running is a tactical part of the game with the goal of eventually reaching home base to score a run. Batters strive to become base runners, and to enable existing base runners to move to a subsequent base or to score.

  7. Baseball statistics - Wikipedia

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    Baseball statistics include a variety of metrics used to evaluate player and team performance in the sport of baseball. Because the flow of a baseball game has natural breaks to it, and player activity is characteristically distinguishable individually, the sport lends itself to easy record-keeping and compiling statistics .

  8. Batting average on balls in play - Wikipedia

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    In Major League Baseball (MLB), .300 is considered an average BABIP. [2] Various factors can impact BABIP, such as a player's home ballpark; [3] for batters, being speedy enough to reach base on infield hits; [3] or, for pitchers, the quality of their team's defense. [4]

  9. Fielding percentage - Wikipedia

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    In baseball statistics, fielding percentage, also known as fielding average, is a measure that reflects the percentage of times a defensive player properly handles a batted or thrown ball. It is calculated by the sum of putouts and assists, divided by the number of total chances (putouts + assists + errors). [1]