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third base

noun as in the third step in the baseball diamond

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And for the “never bunt” crowd: the chance to score one run is slightly higher with a runner on third base with one out than with a runner on second base and none out.

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Sasaki then came on to close it out in the ninth, getting Bryson Stott, representing the tying run, to pop up in foul territory behind third base to end the game.

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The Cincinnati Reds suddenly had runners at second and third base.

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That’s a lot of ifs, and even then the Angels still would have holes at third base, in the outfield, and throughout their pitching staff.

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A further expansion of the Rosyth yard's work is to become a third base for the next generation of nuclear-armed submarines, the Dreadnought class.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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