baseball
A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
Noun 3 meanings
A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, in which the objective is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
Etymology
From base + ball.
BASEBALL at a glance
BASEBALL has 8 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (B 3 + A 1 + S 1 + E 1 + B 3 + A 1 + L 1 + L 1) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,714 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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