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base path

noun

Baseball.
  1. the prescribed course for a base runner on the field extending in designated areas between the bases.


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Origin of base path1

First recorded in 1930–35
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The only problem: Video replays appeared to show that Rojas was out of the base path until he reeled the ball in.

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Anderson’s strong throw beat Sosa to the plate, but the run scored after review when catcher Nick Fortes was ruled to have blocked the base path.

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“Nobody realizes just how small a 60-foot base path is, and how good these players are, until you get those bang-bang plays,” she said.

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Fewer strikeouts, more productive outs, and — my goodness — finally some speed on the base path.

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And because he did that, forcing Jankowski out of the base path, retiring him for the third-to-last out in stunned Citizens Bank Park, the Washington Nationals held on to beat the Phillies, 2-1, and inched their record to 24-30.

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