intentional walk
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Noun
intentional walk (plural intentional walks)
- (baseball) The intentional pitching of four balls (bad pitches), or of a fourth ball, in order to give the batter a walk (for example, so as to avoid the risk of a home run).
- Jones was given an intentional walk in order to face Smith.
Translations
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Verb
intentional walk (third-person singular simple present intentional walks, present participle intentional walking, simple past and past participle intentional walked)
- (baseball, nonstandard) To intentionally walk; to give a batter an intentional walk.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:intentional walk.
See also
intentional walk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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