Innings and Play

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Innings noun - The batting turn of a cricket player or team.

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Play and innings are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Play" instead a noun "Innings".

Play noun - Activity engaged in to amuse oneself.

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Innings and play are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Innings" with "Play", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: played, playful, player, playfulness, playing

If, as is the case in most modern games, a pitcher doesn't play all 9 innings, his ERA is "pro-rated" for the fraction of a game he did play; i.e.

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Also, if this play had failed, they would have gone to extra innings rather than losing, as the game was tied.

Source: Down to the Last Play
A baseball game is divided into a number of innings; major league games will play at least nine, high school teams may play 5 or 7-inning games.

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