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    In baseball, base running is the act of running from base to base, performed by members of the team at bat. Base running is a tactical part of the game...
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    Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion by which humans and other animals move rapidly on foot. Running is a gait with an aerial phase in which...
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    Pinch runner (redirect from Pinch running)
    substituted into a game for the purpose of base running. A pinch runner may be faster or otherwise more skilled at base running than the player for whom the pinch...
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  • defenders. The batter can get on base by getting a hit or walking. During an at-bat, the batter attempts to reach base by contacting the baseball with...
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    his ability to get batters to do what he wants them to do. In general, base running is a tactical part of the game requiring good judgment by runners (and...
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  • contributed by a player through offensive actions such as batting and base running, and runs denied to opposition teams by the player through defensive...
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  • and then running a circuit of bases. Rounders is referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called Base-Ball. English...
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    A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the...
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    Merkle's Boner refers to the notorious base-running mistake committed by rookie Fred Merkle of the New York Giants in a game against the Chicago Cubs on...
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  • Tetradecathlon Baseball like Baseball Baseball5 Corkball – four bases (no base-running) Fuzzball (sport) Cuatro esquinas Extreme Baseball Kickball Indian Ball...
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    and also the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond. The following year, the book was published...
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  • Derryberry and Matt Scannell. Though still technically a duo and acoustic based, Running on Ice featured many guest musicians (most notably Carter Beauford of...
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    Eric Young Sr. (category Major League Baseball first base coaches)
    as a running instructor for the Houston Astros and helped with their outfield and base running. He was named the Arizona Diamondbacks first base coach...
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    2 outs which led all NL hitters. He continued to display remarkable base-running ability and technique. Báez hit his 100th career home run on June 23...
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    Kenny Lofton (category American League stolen base champions)
    the all-time postseason stolen base record with 34, having broken Rickey Henderson's record in 2007. Of his base running, Frank White said, "Lofton has...
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  • In mathematics, the running angle is the angle of consecutive vectors ( X t , Y t ) {\displaystyle (Xt,Yt)} with respect to the base line, i.e. ϕ ( t )...
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    at 1st base or continue to 2nd if they desire, though their choice also depends on whether there is a runner at 2nd or 3rd; see Base running#Strategy)...
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  • candidates in appealing to a larger base of people to deterring voters who were initially inclined to vote for the running candidate, but may have been put...
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    5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long by 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) wide at the base, running from east to west and surrounded by the sea on all sides except the...
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  • loosely based on the Stephen King novel Running Man (2013 film), a 2013 South Korean film Running Man (2015 film), a 2015 Chinese film The Running Man (2025...
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    Willie Mays (category National League stolen base champions)
    defense at first base, and performed a strategic base-running maneuver with one out in the 11th inning, running slowly from second to third base to draw a throw...
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    Although he had a lengthy career, he is best remembered for a controversial base-running mistake he made as a rookie while still a teenager. Born in Watertown...
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    Vince Coleman (baseball) (category National League stolen base champions)
    stolen base percentage among all players with 80 or more attempts, at 80.9%. The Chicago White Sox added Vince Coleman to their staff as a base-running instructor...
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    Lou Brock (category National League stolen base champions)
    power hitter, though he aspired to be one. Brock had great speed and base running instincts, but the young right fielder failed to impress the Cubs management...
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  • The Running Grave is a crime fiction novel written by J. K. Rowling, and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It was published 26 September...
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    when attempting to steal second base on a pitch by Rick Aguilera.) SB – stolen base (Dan Gladden stole his second base of the series on a pitch from Avery...
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  • BASE jumping (/beɪs/) is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend to the ground. BASE is an acronym that stands...
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  • scud running. The term gets its name from scud, which is used to describe small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base, and...
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    made on the play). For example, if the batter bats a base hit which allows a teammate on a higher base to reach home and so score a run, then the batter...
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    development on a single hardware base, running commodity Intel chips but with Bull value-adds. This platform, called Novascale and based on Itanium 2 processors...
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