force-out noun

1. (in baseball) a situation in which a player running to a base is out (= their turn at bat is over) because a fielder is holding the ball at the baseTopics

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force-out
{n.} A play in baseball in which a runner is out because he does not run to the next base before the fielder with the ball touches the base.
Bob was out at second base when Joe hit into a force play.

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