base runners
Players awaiting pitches
Base runners are players in baseball or softball who have reached base safely and are attempting to advance around the bases to score.
The term appears in discussions of strategy, stolen bases, and defensive plays: The pitcher kept checking on the base runners.
Also written as one word: baserunners.
- stealTake without permission
- leadoffFirst in sequence
- scoreNumerical standing in competition
- tripleGroup of three
- hit-and-runLeaving after causing collision
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