pinch-hitter
替补上场者,替补队员,替补球员,替补上场
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- : Baseball. a substitute who bats for a teammate, often at a critical moment of the game.
- : any substitute for another, especially in an emergency.
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Because somehow, after all that, after Báez was booed when he stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter earlier in the afternoon, he was the man running from first base when Marlins left fielder Jorge Alfaro bobbled Michael Conforto’s double.
Despite it being his scheduled day off, Ohtani entered the game as a pinch hitter with the bases loaded and Los Angeles trailing 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Manager Dave Martinez didn’t swap Robles out for Soto or another pinch hitter because he had already burned Andrew Stevenson, his last available outfielder, in a double-switch before the top of the eighth.
Since then, Kieboom has pinch-hit twice and García has been a pinch hitter, pinch runner and starting second baseman, appearing in all three games.
Shallots don’t last as long as regular storage onions, meaning if you happen to come into a windfall, consider using them sooner rather than later, including as a pinch hitter.
Pinch it with your fingers until it makes large crumbles and distribute it on the berries (it will not cover them entirely).
“Air refueling and airlift assets were the literal pinch I am describing here,” the official said.
“As much as I want to complain, I have to pinch myself that this is happening,” she said.
He packed a large pinch of the snuff against his bottom gum.
Picture a slightly younger Alice with a pinch more physical humor in an office.
Here are pretty goings on—a pinch of your snuff, Perker, my boy—never were such times, eh?
That first 'pinch' was its own priceless reward, far above present appreciation or future fame.
Both the twain were very bare and scant of the goods of this world, and even then were feeling bitterly the pinch of hunger.