small ball
Pellet or bead
Small ball is a baseball strategy emphasizing singles, bunts, stolen bases, and sacrifice plays over power hitting.
Teams play small ball to manufacture runs one base at a time rather than waiting for home runs: With our weak lineup, we had to play small ball all season.
The approach contrasts with relying on big innings and extra-base hits.
- buntBall-tapping technique
- baseballBat-and-ball team sport
- beadPierced ornament for threading
- marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
- gumballRound chewy candy
tiny sphere · pellet · hacky sack · squeeze play · single · hit and run · mothball · base running · sacrifice bunt · ping-pong · pea shooter · handball · palm · flick · pocket · toss · roll it · juggling
- sports tacticszone defense, pick, formations, game plan, spacing
- baseball tacticshit and run, double steal, pickoff, steal, sacrifice bunt
- Deadball EraTy Cobb, Cy Young, inside baseball, spitball
- rhyming reduplicativesflip flop, hip hop, tip top, zigzag, ping pong
- battingbatting, batter, batsman, bat speed, batting average
small ballboulder
Large weathered stone
beach ball · medicine ball · exercise ball · yoga ball · wrecking ball
small balllong ball
Home run hit
slugging · swing for the fences · mashing · Moneyball · station-to-station
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