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the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
he is playing third -
the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
he was cut down on a close play at third
How To Use third base In A Sentence
- If anything, both groups tend to over-represent pitching (31 percent of all non-Negro League and non-player selections), while significantly under-representing third basemen (five percent).
- He'll pick an opportune moment, of course, when the batter is adjusting his gloves and looking at the third base coach. USATODAY.com - Miller's aces in good hands
- Down to his final strike, he swung late at a fast ball and lofted a pop-up down the third base line.
- Before the enactment of the rule confining the coachers to a limited space the coacher at third base sometimes played a sharp trick on the second baseman. Base-Ball How to Become a Player
- A base hit should get the runner to third base, and a groundout usually advances him to second.
- In the bottom of the fifth inning, Manny Ramirez hit a shot down the third base line that caromed off the stands and struck Gerry Davis, the left field line umpire.
- McBride singled in a run in the second, banging a ball off the glove of diving third baseman Ken Boyer to score Leon Wagner.
- In 1941, Williams hit six long flies that drove in a runner from third base.
- Scott Brosius has played an acrobatic third base and hit for average and power.
- With runners on first and second, the batter hits a slow roller between the pitcher's mound and the third baseline.