Quick Pitch

This is an alphabetical list of selected unofficial and specialized terms, phrases, and other jargon used in baseball, and their definitions, including illustrative examples for many entries.

See Glossary of English-language idioms derived from baseball for common idioms that originated in baseball.

See baseball statistics for more formal definitions of some of the statistical concepts in this glossary.

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