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Pickleball - A hybrid of ping-pong, tennis, and badminton. Polocrosse - A hybrid of polo and lacrosse, played on horseback. Q. QuadraSport - another hybrid of soccer, basketball, football and baseball; R. Racketlon - a combination sport in which competitors play a sequence of the four most popular racket sports: table tennis, badminton, squash ...
To move a runner ahead safely to another base, often the conscious strategy of a team that plays small ball. If a batter does make an out, his plate appearance will have been less negative if he still got a runner into scoring position; in certain situations, batters even deliberately sacrifice themselves.
A pickoff move is the motion the pitcher goes through in making this attempt; some pitchers have better pickoff moves than others. Pitchers in professional baseball use the pickoff move often, perhaps several times per game or even per inning if speedy baserunners reach base. Pitchers with more confidence in their ability to eliminate batters ...
Real tennis (also royal tennis or court tennis): An indoor racket sport which was the predecessor of the modern game of (lawn) tennis. The term real is used as a retronym to distinguish the ancient game from the modern game of lawn tennis. Known also as court tennis in the United States or royal tennis in Australia. [113]
Major League Baseball has told Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes that his pump fake pitch to Cleveland’s Andrés Giménez is against the rules. Known for his deceiving leg kicks and windups, Cortes ...
Hidden ball tricks are most commonly observed in baseball, where the defence deceives the runner about the location of the ball, to tag out the runner. In goal -based sports (e.g., American football and lacrosse ), the offence deceives the defence about the location of the ball, in an attempt to get the defense running the wrong way, such as in ...
The NFL’s ultimate goal, multiple league executives said, is to eliminate the hip-drop tackle, as they define it, from the game. League leadership wants to pressure teams to coach it out of ...
In some cases, the specific sport may not be known; these entries may be followed by the generic term sports, or a slightly more specific term, such as team sports (referring to such games as baseball, football, hockey, etc.), ball sports (baseball, tennis, volleyball, etc.), etc. This list does not include idioms derived exclusively from baseball.