noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
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"We batted around in our half of the inning."
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"Our team scored five runs in the last inning."
A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
Common synonyms include: batting half-inning, bout, chance, frame, go, half inning.
Our team scored five runs in the last inning.
Pronounced /ˈɪnɪŋ/.
Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.