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The team's play was so lackluster that [Roger] Craig thought something needed to be said. We've got to play with more intensity and fire. From June 14 onward, over the last one hundred games of the season, the Mets played. Merely playing. The Card[inal]s won the pennant not by " playing. In each of these instances, you could add the word ball immediately after the phrase "playing. It follows that "playing. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 5 years, 6 months ago. Active 5 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 13k times. Improve this question. Qutorial Qutorial 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. First, it's, playing. I'm gonna guess that the phrase originates from baseball where almost all statistics that are not whole numbers are expressed as 3 digits , whether to the hundredth ERA of 2.
The same goes for a team's Winning percentage : it's expressed to the thousandth three decimal places , so playing. First, it's batting. Qutorial Baseball has another expression, one which has entered everyday English, and that is to bat a thousand.
The 'thousand' here comes from the perfect batting average of 1. Jim If you click on the link in my first comment and scroll down a bit, you'll find plenty of instances of playing. Granted you can also, theoretically, bat. Jim It's not just playing.
Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. The earliest example I could find in Google Books of an application outside of baseball is a passing reference from Official Foot Ball Rules , published in Playing. Here is an image of the Jackie Robinson card from the National Museum of American History website: Baseball cards remained extremely popular for around four decades thereafter.
Improve this answer. There are some Spalding? AlanCarmack That's entirely possible; as I noted, Chadwick established many of the conventions in the 19th century. But sports almanacs are the stuff of inside baseball , and even newspaper columns would have been beyond the ken of many a schoolyard team manager prior to ' Add a comment.
Of course, no one can play. From New York Magazine , volume 1 : Hodges has set a goal of winning 70 games this year and perhaps playing. Instances of 'playing. And from " Giants Tuning Up for World's Series ," in the [New York] Sun September 17, : For quite a stretch the Giants were in a pretty bad slump and had any team really been chasing them this slump might have proved dangerous.
Conclusion The idiomatic phrase "playing. From Mike Shatzkin, Baseball Explained : Games Behind is the number of games a team behind would have to beat a team ahead in order to catch up to them in games above. From Gary Peterson, Battle of the Bay: Bashing A's, Thrilling Giants, and the Earthquake World Series : The [Ernest] Riles experiment as among many things that went wrong in a 4—1 loss to the Mets He was indecisive on two balls that fell for doubles and was charged with an error.
Sven Yargs Sven Yargs k 30 30 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Note however that it's always " playing.
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