intentional walk

English

Noun

intentional walk (plural intentional walks)

1. (baseball) The intentional pitching of four balls (bad pitches), or of a fourth ball, in order to give the batter a walk (for example, so as to avoid the risk of a home run).

   Jones was given an intentional walk in order to face Smith.

Synonyms

• intentional base on balls

Translations

(baseball)

• Catalan: base per boles intencionada (ca) f
• French: (Europe) but-sur-balles intentionnel m, (Quebec) base-sur-balles intentionnel m
• Japanese: 故意四球 (こいしきゅう, koi shikyū), 敬遠 (ja) (けいえん, keien)
• Korean: 고의사구(故意四球) (gouisagu)

Verb

intentional walk (third-person singular simple present intentional walks, present participle intentional walking, simple past and past participle intentional walked)

1. (baseball, nonstandard) To intentionally walk; to give a batter an intentional walk.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:intentional walk.

See also

• intentional walk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia