second base

noun

Definition 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.

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With the go-ahead run on second base with two outs, reliever Jorge Lopez stepped in. — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, "A Closer Look: Miami Marlins 5, Milwaukee Brewers 4 (12 innings)," 12 July 2018 Most notorious was Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers, who came into second base with spikes high, looking to break up double plays. — Rich Cohen, WSJ, "New Glory Days for Slides," 22 June 2018 Merrifield was at second base with two outs in the sixth inning of the game at Kauffman Stadium. — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, "Royals' Whit Merrifield stole third base without a pitch being thrown," 4 June 2018 Left fielder David Peralta came to the plate and faced a new Brewers reliever in lefty Boone Logan, but Peralta managed a ground out to second base that moved Dyson to third base with two outs. — Richard Morin, azcentral, "Diamondbacks get 'elusive' big hit, snap losing skid with win over Brewers," 15 May 2018 Three times on Saturday night, the Mets got a runner to second base with nothing to show for it. — New York Times, "Mets Get a Boost From Matz. Alas, It Doesn’t Matter.," 5 May 2018 After playing second base in the interim, Gordon got turned into a super-utility player. — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, "Healthy and happy, Dee Gordon looks for a bounceback for the Mariners," 18 Feb. 2019 Cory Hahn, a 26th-round pick of the Padres out of Santa Ana Mater Dei in 2010, was paralyzed from the chest down after snapping his neck on a head-first slide into second base in his third game with the Sun Devils. — John Maffei, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Three Pirates pitchers celebrate San Diego homecoming," 28 June 2018 After some more stellar pitching on both sides, and a benches-clearing incident centered around an Eric Sogard slide into second base in the eighth, Aguilar got another chance to play hero in the ninth. — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "At every turn, Jesús Aguilar is impressing for the Brewers," 23 June 2018

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