🦹 To take illegally 🕵️ To move secretly ⚾ A base advance 💸 A great bargain

steal

30 7.2

Moving to the next base while the pitcher throws the ball without a hit or walk

noun
/stiːl/

: robo (en béisbol)

The player executed a perfect steal just as the pitcher released the ball.

Someone I know loves stopping steals, right?

Examples

The Buzz just pulled off a double steal.

Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
After a quick steal of second base, the crowd erupted in cheers.
And a steal by Marshall!

Hoop Dreams (1994)
We're going to double steal, hit and run, and suicide squeeze.

Home Run (2013)
That's your first steal of the year.

Ballbuster (2020)
Good steal, Dax, good steal.

Uncle Drew (2018)
And there's a steal by Walker!

Radio (2003)
There's the steal by Roberts.

Nightbreed (1990)
In the top of the eighth, Phillips took second on a sliding steal.

Fiction book (2000)
Jepner is soaring into the air, makes the steal.

Flubber (1997)

Antonyms

to remain

∞ 1.0

To stay in the same place or state and not change

Idioms

to steal the show

Informal

14 3.7

To get the most attention or praise at an event

to steal someone's heart

Informal

1 3.6

To make someone feel love or a strong liking for you

Compounds

kill steal

Jargon

8.9

Taking the final hit on an enemy in a game so another player does not get the kill

Surface Forms

steal singular

steals plural

Etymology

Steal in baseball comes from the verb steal meaning 'take secretly', because a runner quietly takes the next base while the pitcher throws, so the move is called a 'steal'.