Baseball Lexicon

The ratiio of successful performances to opportunities (for example, the number of times at bat divided by the times a hit was achieved) is an

• statistics

• average

• bunt

• balk

The place that the runner must touch before scoring (1st, 2nd, 3rd, home) is a

• average

• statistics

• bunt

• base

The act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat is a

• balk

• strike

• slug

• bunt

To give an assignment to someone, for example to create a designated hitter or a designed runner, is to

• designate

• strike

• balk

• bunt

To advance a base safely during the delivery of a pitch (this is something Jackie Robinson did very well) is to:

• bunt the base

• steal the base

• balk the base

• average the base

Any action or gesture that encodes a message (for example, the catcher shows certain fingers to the pitcher):

• signal

• slug

• bunt

• strike

To strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat.

Someone who does this is called a slugger.

• strike

• bunt

• balk

• slug

A pitch that is swung at and missed OR

a pitch that is not in the strike zone (over the plate).

• strike

• balk

• bunt

• slug

A branch of mathematics concerned with quantitative data

(very important in baseball; these are compiled for every player)

• average

• statistics

• strike

• mound

A planned recurrent sequence, such as the order the players come to bat; this can also be of crops or personnel, etc.

• strike

• rotation

• average

• statistics