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When in Rome do as the Romans do. When at the ole ball park know and enjoy the lingo of baseball.

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Baseball teminology with all its different subtle meaning and emphasis on many of the particular plays adds color and depth to enjoyment of the game.

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• Knob of the Bat: The small end of the bat where your hands grip on the handle end. The end of the bat has a raised collar designed to allow for holding the bat near the very end which prevents the bat from slipping from your hands.

  When choosing sides on the old school yard playground, it was the end part of the bat, which allowed one to grasp and fling the bat overhead and backwards in an effort to choose first.

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• Knuckle Ball: If you ever watched a butterfly flit around dipping and diving then you know what a knuckle ball might do in its flight.

  The knuckle ball is thrown with a pitcher holding and releasing the ball so that the ball makes no spin or rotation.

  Baseball-vocabulary-page5 lingo uses this term knuckle ball when actually the ball might even be thrown not neccessarily by holding with the knuckles.

  You have seen movies and pictures depicting how our astronauts simply float around in weightlessness when in outer space. The knuckle ball pitch has the same floating serene movement.

L

• Line Drive: a ball blasted from the bat which stays parallel to the ground at approximately eye level.
• Line Up: When the managers meet the umpire at home plate just prior to the Ump crying, "Batter up, Let's Play Ball", the managers hand the umpire the starting lineup of players.

  A significant part of the line up is the batting order. The line up shows the batting order.

M

O

• On Deck: A little white limed circle on the diamond between the dugout and home plate. The next scheduled to bat player is supposed to dutifully stay in that circle.

  The next ball game you attend, please check and see just how many of the players actually stay in that little circle.

Baseball-vocabulary-page5 talking about on deck one might think we were aboard a ship however, land lubber we are at the ballpark waiting to be the next hitter.

• Open Stance: When a hitter steps into the batters box he sets his feet in a manner that is most comfortable and effective for him to hit that ball. Setting his rear foot or foot nearest the catcher, he turns slightly and brings his forward foot further away from the home plate.

  In essence, he is able to look directly at the pitcher without peering over a shoulder. The placement of the feet in the hitting position has the forward foot further from the plate.

• On The Screws: When the batter hits the ball hard Also "on the button" or "on the nose."

  Somebody might get hit on the nose talking baseball-vocabulary-page5 lingo if one didn't know it is all part of baseball terminology.

P

• Painting The Black: When a pitcher throws the ball over the edge of the plate.

  Why not paint the town? Baseball-vocabulary-page5 is quietly telling you in baseball lingo that in days gone by the outer edge of homeplate was painted with an edging in black.

  A pitch on the edge of the plate by baseball-vocabulary-page5 was a pitch crossing over that edge.

• Pepper: Pepper is a common pre-game exercise where one player bunts brisk grounders and line drives to a group of fielders who are standings about 20 feet away. The fielders try to throw it back as quickly as possible.

  The batter hits the return throw. This toss and hit at close quarters continues until the pace quickens to a fire drill and gets a little rambunctious.

  Thus the game of pepper is abtly named and the requirement for the "No Pepper In This Area" signs you see near the dignataries seating area at the ballpark.

• Pennant: The winner or champions of the American League attain their title by winning the season ending Pennant Series of the American League. Winning the American League affords them the right to challenge the National League pennant winners at the World Series.

  The National League, just as the American League, determines their National League pennant winners with a right to challenge the American league pennant winners at the World Series.

  Up jumps Japan! Now who is the World Champion?

• Pick-off: sometimes involves a little bit of Tomfoolery. This is only one type of pick-off play, but may be the slickest baseball trick of the game!
• Pickle: When a runner gets caught off base by a slick sleight of motion and movement by a pitcher or a rifled armed catcher catching a base runner off base we know the runner is in a pickle. A good goose chase between the runner and some real heads up defensive players we know good and well that this runner for sure is in a "pickle." Have you ever been in a pickle and didn't know which way to turn?

  Call it a wabbit chase, goose chase or run down anyway you slice it that runner is in a "pickle."

  Folks a young up and coming future Star of this game by the name of Steven-Ryley Randolph shared this "pickle" lingo with me. Keep your eyes and ears tuned to whats happening around the baseball diamonds of Prattville, Alabama. Steven-Ryley has the grit the skills and "want to" to one day, in about 6-to-9 years, be thrilling you with his exploits playing where the big boys ply their baseball skills in the Big Show.

• Pinch Hitter: A hitter the manager sends to the plate to hit replacing a player he takes out of the game.
• Pitching Rubber: hard rubber mat on the pitchers mound that the pitcher's foot must be in contact when he releases his pitch.
• Pop Up: A Lazy fly ball puffed up into the infield area with no hope for the batter to escape an easy out. Sometime that pop up is caused by a small knick on the barrel of the bat.

  Another of those winning edge training tips, is to keep that bat barrel smooth and slick as molasses, trying to prevent or minimize those pop ups.

R

• Rabbit Ears: When a player hears and reacts demonstrably to fans jeering or razzing we say he has "rabbit ears".
• Rattle the Fence: Sometimes a batter will hit a ball that is like a rocket blast and hangs a good lick onto the outfield wall or fence. Sometimes, just to give a heavy hitter some teammate encouragement, we will get his hopes up with, "Come on Big Boy rattle the fence".
• Round Tripper: A homerun by a different name. Hitter hits a fair ball inside or out of the park and touches all four bases without being tagged out.
• Run Down: Sometimes a base runner will get caught between bases with the defenders having the ball and the advantage. The defensive tosses the ball back and forth holding the runner from advancing or retreating without being tagged out.

  At the opportune moment one of the defending players decides he can outrun the runner and takes a mad dash to run him down and make the tag.

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