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Inning   /ˈɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Inning

noun
1.
(baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat.  Synonym: frame.



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"Inning" Quotes from Famous Books



... good player will sometimes go through almost all the twenty-four motions without failing to make a "two finger," that is, a fair stick, each time; but it is very unusual for anyone to run the game out in one inning. This is the game in twenty-four motions; many boys play it ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... Stewart shut their eyes going after a fly ball and their skulls come together and it sounded like a freight wreck and they was both layed out so I and Lefty Danvers took their place and in the 8th. inning I come up with 2 on and hit a curve ball off big Jack Rowan and only for the fence that ball wouldn't of made no ...
— Treat 'em Rough - Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer • Ring W. Lardner

... run, but alas! before he got to second base the ball he had knocked was coming down, and was almost in the webbed foot of Jimmie Wibblewobble, who was waiting to catch it, and if it was caught that would mean that Buddy would be out, and his side would not win that inning. ...
— Buddy And Brighteyes Pigg - Bed Time Stories • Howard R. Garis

... bat for you, Willard," said Manager Watson, when the inning was over. "Cooney, you go ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick



Words linked to "Inning" :   playing period, division, baseball, section, baseball game, play, bottom, period of play, top, part



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