Baseball Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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lip n. The area where the infield grass meets the dirt cutout has become what is better known in baseball parlance as a “lip.” And that lip is not small. Old timers used to call the feature a “suture,” recalling the ugly, bumpy scars made by back-in-the-day knee and elbow surgeries. [Baseball Sports & Recreation Jargon] [full cite] (May. 21, 2004)

loogy n. Relievers have been used for just one batter 1,013 times so far this season.…Most of them are left-handers.…The statistics community has come to call each of them a Loogy, short for Lefty One Out Guy. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Acronym] [full cite] (Oct. 3, 2005)

Mexican beans n.pl. Two San Francisco newspaper reporters, citing 1,000 pages of documents and interviews with more than 200 people, alleged that baseball’s potential all-time career home run king bulked up on various amounts of Winstrol, Deca-Durabolin, insulin, human growth hormone, testosterone decanoate (a “fast-acting” drug also known as “Mexican beans”) and trenbolone. [English Baseball Drugs Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 13, 2006)

moneyball n. The word, moneyball, has pried its way into the baseball lexicon. There are moneyball players and moneyball teams. As with any kind of contrived language, the use of the term carries with it the stigma of stereotype, which, like all stereotypes, is based on misinformation and ignorance. [English United States Baseball Money & Finance Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2004)

moneyball n. While you were still rooting for your team for no reason more profound than it was your team, they changed the rules on you. The Dodgers and Giants split for the Coast, sharpies like George Steinbrenner bought into the game, the players earned free agency, the World Series became a seven-night affair because that’s what was best for television sponsors. Baseball became moneyball, and it made perfect sense for fans to get cut into the game. [English Baseball Money & Finance Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Jul. 6, 2004)

Nintendo slider n. In baseball parlance, a “Nintendo slider” is one that breaks as if controlled by a joystick. [English United States Baseball Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 4, 2004)

noon-to-cocktail hour curve n. Zito was dominant. His noon-to-cocktail-hour curve—scouts slang for a pitch that breaks downward like hands on a clock moving from 12 to 6—gave the Dodgers fits. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 19, 2006)

OK change n. That finger, which McBeth cannot straighten, bends perfectly around the ball when he throws what in baseball parlance is called a “circle change” or an “OK change.” The trick to throwing the pitch is to put as little pressure as possible on the index finger and let the other three fingers and thumb guide the ball. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Jun. 11, 2007)

painting n. Lidle’s career ended with a 82-72 record and 4.57 ERA in 1,322 2/3 innings for seven teams. He made his living by “painting,” as it’s called, or pitching to the outside corners of the strike zone as a way to compensate for average velocity. A slight 5-11 and 175 pounds, he had no choice. [English Baseball Sports & Recreation Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 15, 2006)

pepto n. But you have to distinguish greenies—the peptos as they were called—from steroids. Greenies only allowed you to play up to your ability. If you didn’t get a good night’s sleep, or you had a hangover, it would allow you to play up to your ability, or at least some players thought that. It did not create a different human being. It did not change your physical makeup. It did not allow you to play beyond your ability, your normal ability as steroids do and as Human Growth Hormone does. [English Baseball Drugs Sports & Recreation Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 19, 2007)

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