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squeeze play
noun as in attempt to pick off baseball runner
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Example Sentences
In the ninth, the Dodgers put on a squeeze play with runners on the corners and no outs, tying the score when Chris Taylor’s bunt got away from Mets reliever Adam Ottavino.
You might call it a squeeze play: Schiff wanted to keep his two closest Democratic competitors out of the fall race, and he succeeded.
Then Kevin Smith brought in another run on a successful squeeze play.
Douglas Hodo II had an RBI single, and the Longhorns scored on a squeeze play and wild pitch.
Rangers reliever Dennis Santana made a heads-up defensive play to prevent the A’s from pulling off a squeeze play in the fifth.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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