(Baseball, softball) A player who is on base.
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Examples for "runner "
Examples for "runner "
1 David Cameron, Britain's prime minister, was runner - up for the second successive year.
2 He's a good hard runner , a great zone runner with great vision.
3 No recent year has been so short of an obvious front runner .
4 Last year Ireland's outstanding marathon runner Catherina McKiernan won the national prize.
5 He's a power runner and his feet never stop going, Zimmer said.
1 The Liveboard feeds your need with up to the millisecond updates on scores, baserunner positions and jersey numbers.
2 Three times in the first five innings Cleveland put a baserunner on third but could not advance him the last 90 feet.
3 Wells led the league in winning percentage, shutouts, strikeout-to-walk ratio, and fewest baserunners per inning.
4 Farnsworth finished the season with a 4.80 ERA while allowing 89 baserunners in 60 innings.
1 Then the graceful, powerful Lane, champion batter, champion base runner , stepped to the plate.
2 She stopped so fast that she slid on her side like a base runner .
3 He was only an ordinary fielder, and a fair base runner , but excelled as a batsman.
4 At the same time he must cover his base to stop the base runner from advancing home.
5 But for the sake of the team his chief concern must be to advance the base runner .
6 It was the kind of row usually associated with an umpire's close dicision on a base runner .
7 I believe he is the best base runner on the freshman team, if he is not too reckless.
8 Ryan was a good hitter, not an overly fast base runner , and a good judge of a fly ball.
9 Dayguild grinned and chewed gum as he entered the box and faced little McDornick, champion base runner of the Camdens.
10 A base runner should never stop trying to make a base until the ball is in the hands of the baseman.
11 Should a base runner overrun a base and then be put out, he should receive the credit for the stolen base .
12 There is so little time allowed to judge of the situation that prompt action becomes a necessity with the base runner .
13 As a thrower, fielder and base runner he was in the first class, while as a batsman he was only fair.
14 Bescher, as in 1911, earned in 1912 the position of leading base runner in the National League.
15 Such a ball is snapped from the wrist and should be aimed to catch the base runner who is attempting to steal the base .
16 He was a good batsman and a splendid base runner , and was nearly as good a player on the infield as in the out.
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