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Wednesday, November 15
Baseball Buzz Words
1 A Shot: A well hit ball
2 Ball looked like a watermelon coming in: High fast ball pitch usually swung at and missed
3 Baltimore Chop: Ball hit in front of the plate that takes a high hop over the infielders
4 Bang bang: A quick play
5 BigFly : A home run
6 Birddog : A baseball scout who is not officially affiliated with a team
7 Bench warmer: (May be used with riding pine, getting splinters,sitting out,etc) player who spends a lot of time in the dugout
8 Blooper: Short pop fly just over the infielders
9 Bringing it: Throwing smoke
10 Brush back: High and tight pitch
11 Buckled his knee's: A pitch that moved the batter back
12 Can of corn: A fly ball that is easy for a player to catch; usually refers to a fly ball to the outfield, but can also be used for an infield pop up. (Can of Corn comes from the old grocery store clerk with an apron and would toss down the cans from the top shleves, the guy on the botton would use his apron to catch the cans)
13 Cannon: Strong arm
14 Cleat chaser: Female fan that wants more than an autograph
15 Cheese: Fast Pitch
16 Chin music: A pitch high ans tight right uner the batters chin
17 Cycle : The act of hitting a single, double, triple and home run in the same game
18 Digging in: What a batter does when entering the batters box
19 Dieing Quail: Weakly hit ball
20 Dinger: A home run or the impression of a baseball on the hood of your vehicle
21 DIA: Dad is an *** (Overbearing Father of a player)
22 Dirt Dipper: Someone who places the dirt from a baseball infield in his mouth
23 Dirty : Tough to hit
24 Dogging it : Being lazy.
25 Double header: 2 games played in a row
26 Down Town: Where homers go to die
27 Dust 'em off : What a pitcher does to a batter who squeezes the plate ... usually a fast ball up and in ... to intimidate the batter and set up the outside pitch
28 Duece : Curve Ball
29 Fanned: Swinging strike out
30 Filthy : A pitch that has just gone way beyond 'nasty' ... usually involves embarrassing the batter
31 Gapper:A Ball hit in the gaps between outfielders
32 Gleek or gleeking: Unique way of spitting
33 GLM: Good looking Mom
34 Going yard: A home run (also what i tell my wife upon heading out the door on the weekends)
35 Hammer: Curve Ball
36 Handcuffed: Inside pitch
37 Hanger: A curve ball that doesn't break
38 Hang One : When a pitcher throws an offspeed pitch that doesn't move and is up and over the plate, ... often results in a HR
39 He Can Rake: He Can Hit
40 Heater: Fast Ball
41 Hit the showers: Pulled from the game
42 Hook: Curve Ball
43 Horseshoe: Area signed by players on baseball
44 Hot Corner: Third Base
45 Homer: (1) A batted ball that flies over the fence in fair territory, or; (2) An umpire whose calls tend to favor the home team
46 Hotdog: A player who shows off
47 In-the-Hole: A ball it between 2 fielders
48 In the zone: Everything is coming togather for a player
49 Jacked: Home Run
50 Jump on the ball: What batters do to hanging pitches
51 Laser beam: A fastball
52 Leather :Baseball glove
53 Looks like an Asprin : Same as above
54 Meat: A fat pitch
55 Money: A player who makes the big plays
56 Nasty pitch:Pitch with unusual movement, may also be called dirty
57 No-no: No Hitter
58 Paiting the black: A pitch on the edge of the platre for a strike
59 Pea rod: Travel of the ball in a straight line
60 Pick: The act of an infielder cleanly fielding a ground ball
61 Punch & judy: Singles hitter
62 Punched out : Strike out looking
63 Rabbit ears: Listens to bench jockeys
64 Referee : What a parent calls an ump when they've been watching way too much s****r (futbol) ... or if they want to piss off the ump
65 Real Deal: This player can play
66 Rope: A hard hit line drive (which too often results in a multiple base hit)
67 Round Tripper: A home Run
68 Seeing eye single: Hit ball through a gap but not hit hard
69 Shoe string catch: Ball caught just before hitting the ground
70 Snowcone : A ball caught in the tip of the webbing
71 Spitter: A pitch with a foreign substance
72 Squeezing the pitcher : What umpires do to pitchers with bad attitudes ... shrink the strikezone
73 Squeezing the plate : A batter moves up onto the plate to either reach the outside corner of an expanded strikezone or trying to intimidate the pitcher. A confident pitcher will usually ...
74 Stick: Baseball Bat (preferably wooden)
75 Strike: A pitch that a batter swings at or a pitch that the umpire feels crosses the strike zone in the right spot
76 Stud: Me :)
77 Sunday Hop: Easy Ground ball that bounces up to the infielder
78 Table is set : Bases loaded.
79 Tattoo the ball : A monster hit ... not necessarily a HR, but hit really hard, i.e., leaving an 'impression' on the ball
80 Texas leaguer or lawn dart: Bloop hit over infielder.
81 That ball had hair on it:(Exact meaning unclear) but usually a hot grounder
82 Throwing gas: A pitcher who is throwing fast
83 Throwing BB's : A pitcher who's pitches are hard to see they are moving so fast
84 TJ Surgery : Rotator Cuff surgery named after ML Pitcher Tommy John
85 Tossed: Getting thrown out of a game or area of play ( been close to it but never actually experienced this) and it happens after some interaction with the umpire
86 Track Star: Parent of player pacing nervously
87 'Tweener: A Ball hit in between the infielders and outfielders
88 Twi-nighter: 2 games in a row played at night
89 Uncle Charley: Curve
90 Uni: Short for Uniform.
91 Utility player: This guy may be a bench warmer or an all star player acording to his abilties to play multiple positions on the field
93 Wave at the ball : What batters do when they swing at a Filthy curve ball.
94 Web Gem : Great plays highlighted on ESPN and now any great play that would be a web gem if ESPN were there.
95 Wheels, rabbit: Fast runner
96 Wiffed: A swinging strike out
97 Wood: A bat made of wood
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