NOUN
- (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
VERB
- play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note
- play wrong or in an unskillful manner
How To Use misplay In A Sentence
- The punishment for any misplay or failure to call ‘last card‘is to draw one card from the stock.
- Pujols, whose misplay in the ninth inning cost his team the game, left the stadium minutes after the final out and before his clubhouse opened to the media. Rangers Rally, Square Series
- The coach proceeded to do a pantomime of a player misplaying a grounder, exaggerating a gaffe from the previous night's game.
- The Pawlenty campaign misplayed the expectations game in Iowa, said Republican strategist Christian Ferry, who was a top aide to John McCain in his 2008 presidential campaign. Withdrawal Follows a Failure to Ignite
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- But you can easily reason that in this case, Perez noticed Tails' misplay, and as a result, Perez took advantage of the misplay and scored a run.
- If there is a runner on first and the batter hits a ball down the right-field line, the scorer has to watch the ball and the fielder for a possible misplay.
- Johnson gave up hard-hit balls to the leadoff hitters of the first three innings, with rookie Melky Cabrera, who'd made two sun-influenced misplays the afternoon before, again struggling on a double hit way over his head to right center.
- It was a misplay by the Spurs' best player, and teams don't come back from that kind of pratfall.
- Their decisive six-run first inning in Game 5, too, hinged on Oakland misplays - misplays in the late-afternoon light that somehow didn't trouble New York.