baseball game
Noun: A competitive sport played between two teams of nine players each, where the primary objective is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and advancing around four bases arranged in a diamond shape. The game consists of nine innings, with teams alternating between batting (offense) and fielding (defense).
The term "baseball game" refers to a single, complete contest or match of baseball. It is used to describe the event itself, from its start to its conclusion.
Examples: - We bought tickets to watch the baseball game on Friday night. - The children organized a baseball game in the park. - The rain delay postponed the baseball game until the next day.
- "to take in a baseball game": To attend a baseball game as a spectator.
- We decided to take in a baseball game during our trip to the city.
- "a tight baseball game": A game where the score is very close and competitive.
- It was a tight baseball game, decided by a single run in the final inning.
- Baseball (n): The sport itself, or the ball used in the game. Often used interchangeably with "baseball game" in casual conversation (e.g., "Let's play baseball").
- Ballgame (n): A general term for any game played with a ball, which can include baseball. In American English, "ballgame" is often synonymous with a baseball game.
- Game (n): The broader category; a "baseball game" is a specific type of game.
- Ball game (especially in the context of professional sports)
- Contest
- Match (less common in American English for baseball)
- "Play ball!": The traditional call to start a baseball game.
- The umpire yelled, "Play ball!" and the game began.
- "The seventh-inning stretch": A tradition during a baseball game where spectators stand and stretch in the middle of the seventh inning.
- Everyone sang during the seventh-inning stretch of the baseball game.
The term specifically denotes the structured sporting event. It is not used to refer to casual, informal play without organized teams and innings; that activity is more simply called "playing baseball" or "a game of catch."
- a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs
- he played baseball in high school
- there was a baseball game on every empty lot
- there was a desire for National League ball in the area
- play ball!