batting order
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2.9
- noun
- US
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orden de bateo
- In baseball, the batting order determines which players will take their turn at the plate.
- probable batting order
- spot in the batting order
- top of the batting order
Examples
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But much of the difference simply reflects the fact that Cabrera hits third in the batting order and had more opportunities to hit with runners on base.
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Changing the batting order would not work because baseball has a way of exposing all weak links.
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What does that do to your batting order?
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There was never an issue with his place in the batting order before this year, however.
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If you ask me, the problem lies in our batting order.
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We don't know what the batting order is.
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We'll start the new inning at the top of the Mets' batting order.
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They strategically recruit players to play specific defensive positions and to hit in particular spots in the batting order.
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Look at that batting order: Reyes, Cabrera, Bautista, Encarnacion, Lawrie, Rasmus... that is murderer's row.
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Girardi reconfigured his lineup for Sunday by basically moving everyone up one spot in the batting order and inserting Nix into the ninth slot, playing shortstop.
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Synonyms
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3.3
A list of players in batting order for a game
How Early
- Jargon
- US
4
2.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the sequence in which players bat' is directly and transparently composed from 'batting' (the act of hitting a pitched ball) and 'order' (a sequence). This is a straightforward noun + order construction (X order = sequence of X) common across languages and thus would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Batting order comes from baseball: imagine players standing in a line, each ready to take their turn to bat. Here batting means hitting the ball and order means the planned list, so it now means the list of players 'scheduled to bat' in a game.