second base
nounDefinition of second base
1
: the base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball
2
: the player position for defending the area on the first-base side of second base
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Examples of second base in a Sentence
He slid into second base.
He used to play second base for the Red Sox.
Recent Examples on the Web
Over the last month, in preparation for a possible call-up to the majors, the Dodgers had Lux play second base. — Los Angeles Times, "Gavin Lux will make his Dodgers debut Monday," 1 Sep. 2019 Castillo played for the Florida Marlins, Minnesota Twins and the Mets, exclusively playing second base. — Fox News, "Octavio Dotel, Luis Castillo -- ex-MLB stars -- linked to Dominican Republic drug trafficking ring: reports," 20 Aug. 2019 On Sunday, Maddy ditched her normal position playing second base to take the pitcher's mound during her team's game against Virginia's Loudoun South American Little League team. — Amanda Jackson, CNN, "She's been a phenom at the Little League World Series," 19 Aug. 2019 Has two older sisters, Anna and Julia, who played second base for South Windsor. — Dan Brechlin, courant.com, "Meet the 2019 All-Courant spring high school athletes of the year," 2 Aug. 2019 His coach in high school, Jim Sanford, picked the team, and had Rideau hitting eighth, playing second base. — Richard Obert, azcentral, "Chris Rideau, one of St. Mary's all-time greatest players, will lead alma mater's baseball program," 27 June 2019 This places the batter-runner on second base; any runner whose TOP base was second or third will score. — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, "Rockies Mailbag: Window of contention for Colorado, Coors Field attendance, starting rotation update and more," 25 June 2019 After Woodruff struck out, Ben Gamel and Yasmani Grandal both singled, with Grandal's shot bouncing off the base of the wall in left only to see Gamel stop at second base after mis-reading it. — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Brewers 7, Reds 5: Strong effort by Brandon Woodruff, offense nets a series split," 23 June 2019 On Tuesday night, Dietrich was thrown out at second base by Eric Thames trying to stretch a single into a double in the fourth inning. — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, "A Closer Look: Milwaukee Brewers 8, Miami Marlins 4," 11 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'second base.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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