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The sound of the bat hitting the ball. The term is used in baseball to mean "immediately, without hesitation". For example, a baserunner may start running "on the crack of the bat", as opposed to waiting to see where the ball goes. Outfielders often use the sound of bat-meeting-ball as a clue to how far a ball has been hit.
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A line marking a very poor performance or the threshold for barely competent performance, referring to the Mendoza line of a .200 batting average in baseball. "Over the last five years, Wall Street analysts have only been right once. They're below the Mendoza line, batting just 200.
The common way of referring to Major League Baseball as “The Show” stretched from an entity to a descriptor over time, helped along by the existence of the video game “MLB: The Show.”
Baseball is not a set of rules. Never has been. Baseball is the way players and teams pursue wins inside (and sometimes decidedly outside) the lines drawn by the book and on the field.
Sergio Romo's emergence as an opener popularized the practice in 2018.. In baseball, an opening pitcher, more frequently referred to as an opener, is a pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs in a game, before being replaced by a long reliever or a pitcher who would typically be a starting pitcher.
The channel covered baseball beginning on its opening night in 1997, but for financial reasons, the decision was made not to pick up MLB for the 2009 season. [241] BT Sport ESPN show live and recorded games several times a week—it is available with BT Sport and (on a subscriber-basis) Virgin Media in the UK. [242]
MLB's competition committee voted to approve multiple rule changes for 2024, the league announced Thursday. Those updates include subtraction of two seconds from the pitch clock when there are men ...