Baseball Slang

A

• Ace


• Airmail


• Alley


• Annie Oakley


• Appeal Play


• Around the horn


• At the letters


• At'em ball


• Attack the strike zone

B

• Back to back


• Back to the box


• Backstop


• Bad hop


• Balk


• Baltimore Chop


• Bandbox


• Banjo hitter


• bare hand grab


• barehand


• Base knock


• Base on Balls


• Basement


• Baserunning


• bases drunk


• Bases loaded


• Bat around


• Batboy


• Batted Ball


• Batter


• Batters eye


• Battery


• Battle


• Bazooka


• bean ball


• Beanball


• Beat out


• Behind in the count


• Bench Jockey


• Bench-clearing brawl


• Big fly


• Big show


• Bleeder


• Blistered


• Block the plate


• Blocking the plate


• Blooper


• Bonus baseball


• Bottom of the inning


• Box score


• BP


• Brainstorm


• Brock for Broglio


• Bronx bombers


• Browsing


• Brush back


• Bullpen


• Bullpen by committee


• Bunt


• Bush league


• Business person's special

C

• Called shot


• Captain


• Cash in


• Catch


• Catcher


• Caught looking


• Caught napping


• Ceremonial first pitch


• Charging the mound


• Cheap run


• Check swing


• Checked swing


• Chin music


• Circus catch


• Cleanup hitter


• Clutch hitter


• Contact hitter


• Contact play


• Control pitcher


• Corked bat


• Covering a base


• Crackerjack


• Cup of coffee


• Curse of the Bambino

D

• Designated hitter


• Deuce


• Diamond


• Dirt Dog


• Double


• Double Dip


• Double play


• Dugout


• Dying Quail

E

• extra frame

F

• first base


• Free pass


• Friendly confines

G

• Goose egg


• Guess hitter

H

• home plate


• Home run


• Hot stove

I

• In his kitchen


• In the books


• In the hole


• Inning eater


• Inside the ball


• Inside the park home rune


• Insurance run

K

• K

M

• Mendoza line

N

• Nightcap

O

• Out of the park

P

• Picasso


• Pitcher


• pitchers mound


• Punchout

R

• Right down Broadway

S

• Sacrifice bunt


• second base


• strike


• strikeout

T

• third base


• Top of the inning


• Triple Crown

U

• Upper decker

W

• Whiff


• Whitewash


• Worm burner