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base·ball  (bsbôl)

n.

1.

a. A game played with a bat and ball by two opposing teams of nine players, each team playing alternately in the field and at bat, the players at bat having to run a course of four bases laid out in a diamond pattern in order to score.

b. The ball that is used in this game.

2. A game of darts in which the players attempt to score points by throwing the darts at a target laid out in the form of a baseball diamond.

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baseball [ˈbeɪsˌbɔːl]

n

1. (Team Sports / Baseball) a team game with nine players on each side, played on a field with four bases connected to form a diamond. The object is to score runs by batting the ball and running round the bases

2. (Team Sports / Baseball) the hard rawhide-covered ball used in this game

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Baseball 

See Also: SPORTS

1. The ball … came floating up to the plate like a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream bobbing to the top of a drugstore soda —Howard Frank Mosher
2. A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church —W. P. Kinsella

   Kinsella’s novels are small treasure troves of baseball-related similes.

3. The ball … sailed through the light and up into the dark, like a white star seeking an old constellation —Bernard Malamud
4. The ball was coming in like a Lear jet —T. Glen Coughlin
5. Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike —W. P. Kinsella
6. Baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go —Marianne Moore

   Baseball, like writing, was a Marianne Moore passion.

7. Boston hit Dwight Gooden like they were his wicked stepparents —Vin Scully, commenting on the second game of the 1986 World Series
8. The catcher is padded like an armchair —London Times, 1918
9. Defeat stains a pitcher’s record as cabernet stains a white carpet —Marty Noble, Newsday, August 25, 1986
10. The dirt flew as if some great storm had descended and would have ripped up the entire [baseball] field —Craig Wolff, New York Times, August 3, 1986
11. Dwight Gooden [of New York Mets] pitching without his fastball was like Nureyev dancing on a broken leg or Pavarotti singing with a sore throat —Anon item, Newsday, October 25, 1986
12. The earth around the base is … soft as piecrust. Ground balls will die on the second bounce, as if they’ve been hit into an anthill —W. P. Kinsella
13. [Baseball] field … cool as a mine, soft as moss, lying there like a cashmere blanket —W. P. Kinsella
14. He bats like a lightning rod —W. P. Kinsella
15. He gets power from his bat speed … it’s like he has cork in his arms —Pete Rose about Eric Davis, David Anderson column New York Times, May 7, 1987
16. He ran the bases as if he was hauling William H. Taft in a rickshaw —Heywood Broun
17. [Dwight Gooden] his fastball crackling, his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season —Ira Berkow, New York Times/Sports of the Times, August 3, 1986
18. Homers are like orgasms. You run out of them after a time —Norman Keifetz

    See Also: SEX

19. It [the patched-up Shea Stadium field] was dangerous underfoot as the Mets and the Cubs tiptoed their way though a 5-0 Met victory the way soldiers would patrol a mine field —George Vecsey, New York Times/Sports of the Times, September 19, 1986

    The ball players had to navigate their way through the field like soldiers because their fans had behaved so destructively the day before.

20. Knowing all about baseball is just about as profitable as being a good whittler —Frank McKinney
21. Outfielders ran together as if directed by poltergeists —George Vecsey, New York Times/Sports of the Times column on dreadful things that happen to the Mets when they play against the Houston outfielders, October 8, 1986
22. Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lightning in a bottle (How about catching lightning in a bottle on two consecutive starts?) —W. P. Kinsella
23. Sometimes I hit him like I used to hit Koufax, and that’s like drinking coffee with a fork. Did you ever try that? —Willie Stargell on Steve Carlton, Baseball Illustrated, 1975
24. Stepping up to the plate now like the Iron Man himself. The wind-up, the delivery, the ball hanging there like a pinata, like a birthday gift, and then the stick flashes in your hands like an archangel’s sword —T. Coraghessan Boyle
25. To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim —John Cheever
26. Trying to sneak a pitch past him is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster —Amos Otis, baseball outfielder, about Rod Carew, former first baseman
27. Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM —George F. Will, on the Chicago Cubs, Washington Post, March 20, 1974

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	baseball - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" baseball game hit - (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit" bobble - the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" misplay, error - (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed fumble, muff - (sports) dropping the ball pitch, delivery - (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter fastball, heater, hummer, bullet, smoke - (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" batting - (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base fielding - (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field catching - (baseball) playing the position of catcher on a baseball team pitching - (baseball) playing the position of pitcher on a baseball team base on balls, pass, walk - (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls" fair ball - (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it stays between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field foul ball - (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field bunt - (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat fly ball, fly - (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air blast - a very long fly ball pop fly, pop-fly, pop-up - a short high fly ball ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper - (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground out - (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball; "you only get 3 outs per inning" force out, force play, force-out, force - a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base; "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force" putout - an out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout); "the first baseman made 15 putouts" strikeout - an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes sacrifice - (baseball) an out that advances the base runners base hit, safety - (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely line drive, liner - (baseball) a hit that flies straight out from the batter; "the batter hit a liner to the shortstop" plunker, plunk - (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly shoestring catch - (baseball) a running catch made near the ground tag - (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game) flare - (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield Texas leaguer - (baseball) a fly ball that falls between and infielder and an outfielder at-bat, bat - (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" ball game, ballgame - a field game played with a ball (especially baseball) ball - the game of baseball professional baseball - playing baseball for money hardball - baseball as distinguished from softball perfect game - a game in which a pitcher does not allow any opposing player to reach base no-hit game, no-hitter - a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team no hits 1-hitter, one-hitter - a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only one hit 2-hitter, two-hitter - a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only 2 hits 3-hitter, three-hitter - a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team only 3 hits 4-hitter, four-hitter - a game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team 4 hits
	2.	baseball - a ball used in playing baseball ball - round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games; "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"; "the mayor threw out the first ball"; "the ball rolled into the corner pocket" baseball equipment - equipment used in playing baseball

Translations

baseball [ˈbeɪsbɔːl]

A. N (= sport) → béisbol m; (= ball) → pelota f de béisbol

B. CPD baseball cap N → gorra f de béisbol
baseball player N → jugador(a) m/f de béisbol

BASEBALL

El baseball es el deporte nacional norteamericano. Dos equipos de nueve jugadores se enfrentan en un campo de cuatro bases que forman un rombo. El bateador (batter) intenta dar a la pelota que le ha tirado el lanzador (pitcher) y enviarla fuera del alcance de los fildeadores (fielders) para después correr alrededor del rombo de base en base y volver a su punto inicial. Existen dos ligas importantes en los Estados Unidos: la National League y la American League. Los equipos ganadores de estas dos ligas juegan después otra serie de partidos que se denominan World Series.

Algunos aspectos de este deporte, tales como la camaradería y el espíritu de competición tanto entre equipos como entre miembros de un mismo equipo se usan a menudo en el cine como metáforas del modo de vida americano. Culturalmente el béisbol ha aportado, además de conocidas prendas de vestir como las botas o las gorras de béisbol, ciertas expresiones idiomáticas como a ballpark figure (una cifra aproximada) o a whole new ball game (una situación completamente distinta).

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baseball [ˈbeɪsbɔːl] n (= game) → base-ball m
baseball cap n → casquette f de baseball
baseball mitt n → gant m de baseball

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baseball

n → Baseball m or nt

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baseball [ˈbeɪsˌbɔːl] n → baseball m

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baseball

n baseball [ˈbeisboːl]

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