INFIELD

Infield

Infield is a sports term whose definition depends on the sport in whose context it is used. In baseball the baseball diamond plus a region beyond it, has both grass and dirt, in contrast to the more distant, usually grass-covered outfield. It also refers to the defensive unit of players that are positioned in the region: first baseman, second baseman, shortstop, third baseman and sometimes including the catcher & pitcher who are as a tandem often referred to separately as the battery.

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infield

Noun

  1. The area inside a racetrack or running track.
  2. A constrained scope or area.
    Let’s keep this problem in the infield.
  3. An area to cultivate: a field
  4. The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
    They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.
  5. Of an event, happening in the infield.
    Jones ran out an infield single.
  6. The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.

Verb

  1. To inclose (a piece of land); make a field of.


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