squeeze play
noun
1
: a baseball play in which a runner on third base starts for home plate as the ball is being pitched and the batter attempts to bunt to give the runner a chance to score
2
: the exertion of pressure in order to extort a concession or gain a goal
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The Eagles tacked on three runs in the sixth, piecing together three hits, an error and squeeze play that scored a run.
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Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2025
Little Margin for Error Image Near the end of his shift, the controller handling both helicopters and commercial jets tried to pull off a complicated, and potentially risky, maneuver called a squeeze play.
—Kate Kelly, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
San Francisco executed a squeeze play — Brett Wisely bunting, Ramos scoring.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
With runners on first and third and one out, San Ysidro pulled off a squeeze play.
—Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
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Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2025
Little Margin for Error Image Near the end of his shift, the controller handling both helicopters and commercial jets tried to pull off a complicated, and potentially risky, maneuver called a squeeze play.
—Kate Kelly, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
San Francisco executed a squeeze play — Brett Wisely bunting, Ramos scoring.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 7 May 2025
With runners on first and third and one out, San Ysidro pulled off a squeeze play.
—Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Squeeze play.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squeeze%20play. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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