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batting practice facility; batting practice center; batting cage

1

challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try

2

pending question; unresolved problem

3

number of batters already out

4

counter for tours, cycles, rounds, circuits, etc.

3

come hell or high water

1

encouragement; spurring (on); cheering (on)

2

to be exhausted; to be tired out

2

zero; naught; oh; flying; leaping

1

triumphant pose assumed by an athlete

2

base; bag; sack; fortress; stronghold

3

bunt

14

butting (in boxing); clashing (of schedules, etc.); conflict; colliding

1

behind; trailing in points (e.g. in sports)

2

base stealing; steal; stolen base

4

pickoff attempt; throw to check a runner

4

second base

25

high (e.g. ball in baseball); highish; on the expensive side; comparatively expensive; wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score

7

success rate

2

throwing a ball; handball

7

staring (e.g. eyes); goggling; glaring

1

gear; speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)

1

base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag

12

third base

12

to go fast; to drive fast; to speed

1

camp (supporters of a doctrine, party, etc.); faction (of a party); military camp; encampment; cantonment

3

to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged

2

third baseman

1

home base; home plate

5

returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate

2

hiss (esp. cat); sizzle; whoosh

2

to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar

2

impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)

5

substitute runner

2

goodbye; so long; saying goodbye to (e.g. life as a bachelor); putting an end to; farewell (performance, party, etc.); final

2

apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize

1

sparse; distant (of a relationship); estranged; alienated

1

feeling of alienation

1

to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate

2

close (e.g. of business); leaving (e.g. school); being outdone; compare unfavourably (with); closing price (stockmarket); sink mark (casting, moulding)

1

to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)

1

to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush

2

serves you right!

2

to be stricken (e.g. with grief); to be battered (e.g. by disasters)

1

lottery; drawn lot

5

three-legged race; cooperation with singleness of purpose (e.g. between companies); operating in tandem

13

partner (esp. in manzai); companion; partner for the night (e.g. at a brothel)

1

to synchronise the breathing with the opponent prior to the start of a match

2

to compete; to contend; to vie; to contest

2

by gender; according to gender; gender-segregated

2