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first sacker

first sacker

1 7.3
A player who stands at first base and catches throws to get batters out
  • noun
  • /fɜrst ˈsækər/
  • Jargon
translation icon : primera base
  • The first sacker made a great catch to secure the final out of the game.

Examples

  • The coach praised the first sacker for his quick reflexes during the game.

  • Here, we see him running over a first sacker on a drag bunt: a play he perfected.

    Cobb (1994)

  • Here, we see him running over a first sacker on a drag bunt... a play he perfected.

    Cobb (1994)

  • Rich Romeo will be at second against the Brooklyn nine, and at the corners are third baseman Gilberto Valle and first sacker John Shipman, who also takes a turn.

    Blog text (10)

  • As the first sacker, she trained hard to improve her skills at catching hard throws.

Synonyms

first baseman
vsfirst sacker
  • US
18 3.6

A player at first base who catches throws to get runners out

is an informal or alternate name used for the same player position

Surface Forms

first sacker singular
first sackers plural

Morphology

first + sacker

The element 'first' clearly signals the positional sense (the first base), but 'sacker' is rare jargon (derived from 'sack' = base) and is not a common, transparently understood agent noun for a player. A learner who knows plain meanings of the constituents would get a partial clue from 'first' but would likely not predict the sports-specific sense 'first baseman' without domain knowledge, so the expression is only partly predictable.

Etymology

The name first sacker comes from early baseball when the bases were soft bags called sacks. The player who stood at the first sack was called a first sacker, so the phrase now means 'first baseman'.