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inning

[ in-ing ]

noun

  1. Baseball. a division of a game during which each team has an opportunity to score until three outs have been made against it.
  2. a similar opportunity to score in certain other games, as horseshoes.
  3. an opportunity for activity; a turn:

    Now the opposition will have its inning.

  4. innings, (used with a singular verb)
    1. Cricket. a unit of play in which each team has a turn at bat, the turn of a team ending after ten players are put out or when the team declares.
    2. land reclaimed, especially from the sea.
  5. the act of reclaiming marshy or flooded land.
  6. enclosure, as of wasteland.
  7. the gathering in of crops.


inning

/ ˈɪnɪŋ /

noun

  1. baseball a division of the game consisting of a turn at bat and a turn in the field for each side
  2. archaic.
    the reclamation of land from the sea


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Word History and Origins

Origin of inning1

before 900; Middle English inninge, Old English innung a getting in, equivalent to inn ( ian ) to go in + -ung -ing 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of inning1

Old English innung a going in, from innian to go in

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Example Sentences

The Nats finished third in the NL in bullpen ERA and walks plus hits per inning pitched.

Strasburg essentially had a year off after throwing a career-high 245⅓ innings in 2019, between the regular season and the playoffs, so perhaps he is refreshed.

In the following inning Tuesday, Chris Taylor, batting seventh, singled home Max Muncy to give the Dodgers a 5-1 lead.

We’re still in the middle innings of a baseball game at the best.

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Take Bob Feller, who led the AL in wins in his last year before entering the war, but was better on a per-inning basis when he returned late in 1945.

In the 13th inning, a Red Sox batter popped one down left field line and Jeter went to get it.

In the 2001 ALDS, the Yankees led the Oakland Athletics 1-0 in the seventh inning.

Estimates are that by the fourth inning of his second start the cost was covered.

There is his superstition about watching every Red Sox game but never the sixth inning.

End: like an inning in baseball, except shorter and with less spitting.

Each player, or side, is only permitted to throw three balls an inning, irrespective of the number of runs scored.

It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day, The score stood four to six with but an inning left to play.

Peter had seen him call the outfielders in for the ninth inning and retire the side with only an infield behind him.

The eighth inning was disastrous for the blue, although Yale won a score by hard base running.

At the end of the eighth inning Harvard was six scores ahead, and it was plain that the game was lost for Yale.

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