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scoring position, in
Idioms and Phrases
About to succeed, as in The publisher is in scoring position with that instant book about the trial . This term comes from sports, where it signifies being in a spot where scoring is likely. In baseball it refers to a situation in which a runner is on second or third base. The figurative use of the term dates from the second half of the 1900s.Example Sentences
Shohei Ohtani and Teoscar Hernández stranded two runners in scoring position in the fourth.
“There’s been a couple games where we have a lot of guys on base and we hit the ball right at people,” said Hernández, who also left runners stranded in scoring position in the first and third innings.
They also mustered just one run despite having runners on base and in scoring position in five of the first six innings.
It was their only hit with a runner in scoring position in the entire game.
The Dodgers went five for seven with runners in scoring position in the fifth inning and five for 11 in the game, and they struck out only five times , their ability to hit in the clutch and to make more consistent contact reversing two troubling trends.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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