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Shortstop, abbreviated SS, is the baseball or softball fielding position between second and third base, which is considered to be among the most demanding defensive positions. Historically, the position was assigned to defensive specialists who were typically poor at batting and were often placed at the bottom of the batting order .
In both baseball and basketball, it is common for a player's position to be denoted by a number, for example: in baseball scorekeeping the shortstop position is "6", while in basketball the small forward position is known as the "three". Thus, the lineups for some sports can include a uniform number, the player's name, and an abbreviation ...
Willie James Wells (August 10, 1906 [1] – January 22, 1989), nicknamed "the Devil", was an American baseball player.He was a shortstop who played from 1924 to 1948 for various teams in the Negro leagues and in Latin America.
Pages in category "Major League Baseball shortstops" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,182 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
At the college/professional level, baseball is played in nine innings where each team gets one turn to bat and tries to score runs while the other pitches and defends in the field. High school baseball plays seven innings and Little League uses six-inning games. An inning is broken up into two halves where the away team bats in the top (first ...
Gonzalez was named the starting shortstop for Ole Miss as a freshman in 2021. [13] Over 67 starts, he batted .355 with 12 home runs, 55 RBIs, and 16 doubles. [14] He was named to the All-SEC First Team, was named Freshman of the Year by D1Baseball, and was named an All-American by D1Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
In NFHS (high school) rules, a balk is always a dead ball. The most common balk scenarios are when a pitcher fails to come fully set (if using the set position ) before his delivery; or having coming set, starts his motion and stops again (sometimes called a "double set"); or failing to step directly at a base when attempting a pickoff throw.
In 1941 he played all 154 games at shortstop (also a league-high) and in 1947 he made only 15 errors for a consistent .981 percentage. Marion was also a better-than-average hitter for a shortstop. His most productive season came in 1942, when he hit .276 with a league-leading 38 doubles .