Definition of "double play" []

• Baseball A play in which two players are put out. (noun)

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• "In the sixth, the big lefty walked centerfielder Torii Hunter and allowed a bloop single to Vladimir Guerrero, but stopped the rally cold by getting Juan Rivera to ground into a double play and a redhot Howie Kendrick on a lineout to first."
• "Last year Howe hit extremely well, and pivoted on the double play almost as well as Bobby Doerr."
• "And Saunders escaped trouble again when Hideki Matsui erased pinch-runner Brett Gardner with a third double play in the seventh."