suicide squeeze


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Noun1.suicide squeeze - the runner on third base starts home as the pitcher delivers the ball
squeeze play - a baseball play in which a runner on third base tries to score as the batter bunts the pitch
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Gibson retired 10 straight batters at one point, but Tim Anderson doubled to start the seventh and later scored on a suicide squeeze by Yolmer Sanchez.
Suicide Squeeze: Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight Against Teenage Steroid Abuse
Medford won the first game 1-0 on a bases-loaded suicide squeeze bunt in the bottom of the seventh inning before Eugene needed to rally to win the nightcap.
Lunenburg got its run in small-ball ways, though, scoring on a fielder's choice and a suicide squeeze by Eli Sanchez.
Trailing 3-0 in the third inning, Suzuki hit a line drive off Wade Davis to right-center to drive home runners from first and second and plated a run from third on Brendan Ryan's suicide squeeze to tie the ballgame.
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The Angels had a chance to go ahead in the ninth before Erick Aybar, whose 12th-inning single was the winner in Game 3, missed on a suicide squeeze attempt, thwarting the threat.
There are reasons to bunt, steal, hit, and run, suicide squeeze, etc.
When they returned from tour they immediately entered Studio Litho and Snider's Bat Cave and began constructing a new foundation for the group's fourth release for the indie label Suicide Squeeze.
The other, more dramatic, type is called the suicide squeeze, in which the runner on third base breaks toward home plate as the pitcher begins his delivery.
Kenny Manero was 2 for 2 with two stolen bases and two runs and scored on Ben Palatino's suicide squeeze for Hudson (1-6).