bottom of the inning
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- noun
- US
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parte baja de la entrada
- During the bottom of the inning, the pitcher struck out three batters in a row.
- bottom of the inning, Snyder's homer
- runs in the bottom of the inning
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33 pitches for Hand in the bottom of the inning after an 18-pitch top of the first for John Lannan...
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Instead, Dustin Pedroia homered in the bottom of the inning to tie it.
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Starting off the bottom of the inning, Barry Matthews.
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Ryan Webb retired the Nats in order on 10 pitches in the bottom of the inning.
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Andy Pettitte retires the Orioles until the bottom of the inning.
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He was rewarded with a W when Maicer Izturis drove in Peter Bourjos with two outs in the bottom of the inning for the victory.
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In the bottom of the inning, the Reds managed to tie it up when Todd Frazier doubled in The Eternal Miguel Cairo (remember that name).
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After the Blaze tied the game with a two-out RBI single in the top of the ninth, Jarrett Parker led off the bottom of the inning with a towering home run to right for the win.
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The Bucs battled back in the bottom of the inning, clogging up the bases and pushing in two runs on a Brandon Wood sac fly and a Ronny Cedeno RBI single.
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The team rallied with three runs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead.
Synonyms
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The second half of a baseball inning when the home team bats
How Late
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from combining 'bottom' (the lower part) with 'inning' (a baseball period): it denotes the lower/second half of the inning when the home team bats. This is a straightforward, compositional noun phrase following normal English structure, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bottom of the inning comes from how baseball splits an inning into two parts: the 'top' (first half) and the bottom (second half). In the bottom of the inning the 'home team' bats, so it means the second half of the inning when the home team has a chance to score.