Read full poem →I REMEMBER the Chillicothe ball players grappling the
Rock Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game
ended by darkness.
Dictionary Entry
A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the vis
In a Sentence
“It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. inninggame inningstretch inninginning ninthinning firstinning seventhinning eighthinning third
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Poetry examples for “inning”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.