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squeeze play

noun as in attempt to pick off baseball runner

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In the ninth, the Dodgers put on a squeeze play with runners on the corners and no outs, tying the score when Chris Taylor’s bunt got away from Mets reliever Adam Ottavino.

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You might call it a squeeze play: Schiff wanted to keep his two closest Democratic competitors out of the fall race, and he succeeded.

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Then Kevin Smith brought in another run on a successful squeeze play.

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Douglas Hodo II had an RBI single, and the Longhorns scored on a squeeze play and wild pitch.

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Rangers reliever Dennis Santana made a heads-up defensive play to prevent the A’s from pulling off a squeeze play in the fifth.

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