knock in
phrasal verb
knocked in; knocking in; knocks in
baseball
: to cause (a run or runner) to score
He knocked in a run in the second inning with a double to left field.
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Davies started the game against the USMNT despite suffering a knock in their prior semi-final against Mexico.
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Inigo suffered the knock in the first half of Barca's resounding 5-2 Spanish Super Cup final hammering of Real Madrid on Sunday.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
The puck squirted toward the goal line and was eventually knocked in by Compher in a bit of a bad-luck ending for the Penguins.
—Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Before the Gestapo came knocking in November 1940, the two women had helped perhaps 40 soldiers — half of them British, the other half French — escape.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2025
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Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Inigo suffered the knock in the first half of Barca's resounding 5-2 Spanish Super Cup final hammering of Real Madrid on Sunday.
—Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
The puck squirted toward the goal line and was eventually knocked in by Compher in a bit of a bad-luck ending for the Penguins.
—Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Before the Gestapo came knocking in November 1940, the two women had helped perhaps 40 soldiers — half of them British, the other half French — escape.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2025
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“Knock in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knock%20in. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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