go the route

English

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Verb

go the route

1. (baseball) To pitch for an entire game, without a relief pitcher.
   • 2015, Norman L. Macht, The Grand Old Man of Baseball:

     It was like old times: Grove, Earnshaw, and Walberg went the route seven times in the next 13 games.

See also

• complete game