second base

noun

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

second baseman noun

Examples of second base in a Sentence

He slid into second base.

He used to play second base for the Red Sox.

Recent Examples on the Web

Andrés Giménez would likely slot in at shortstop with Ernie Clement or Isiah Kiner-Falefa at second base. —Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025

Then in Game Two came Yoshinobu Yamamoto (three hundred and twenty-five million for twelve years), who gave up a home run to the first batter before pitching a complete game in which no one else got to second base. —Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025

This team needs studs who don’t crawl under the bench when a runner gets to second base. —Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025

With one out and two on in the bottom of the sixth, Edman came out swinging on the first pitch and lofted a single to center field, a hit just soft enough for Will Smith to score the game’s go-ahead run from second base. —Katie Woo, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for second base

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Kids Definition

second base

noun

: the base that must be touched second by a base runner in baseball or the position of the player defending the area around it