spring training
noun
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: the time in the spring when baseball teams prepare for the regular season by playing practice games
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The outfielder made the team out of spring training, but he was optioned back to Triple-A Las Vegas after hitting .179 with two home runs and seven RBIs over 41 games.
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Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
In spring training 1934, Giants manager Bill Terry was giving his assessment of the coming season to the New York baseball writers when one of them asked his opinion of the (then Brooklyn) Dodgers, who’d finished a distant sixth to Terry’s pennant-winning Giants in 1933.
—Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
Sports lovers will enjoy Tempe’s proximity to a variety of teams and stadiums, including college football at Arizona State University’s Mountain America Stadium and the Los Angeles Angels baseball spring training at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
—Katie Seemann, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2024
Crawford, 36, is in the middle of a playoff push with the St. Louis Cardinals, and the 37-year-old Sandoval, after a brief appearance in spring training, is playing for the independent Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks with no signs of slowing down.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
In spring training 1934, Giants manager Bill Terry was giving his assessment of the coming season to the New York baseball writers when one of them asked his opinion of the (then Brooklyn) Dodgers, who’d finished a distant sixth to Terry’s pennant-winning Giants in 1933.
—Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2024
Sports lovers will enjoy Tempe’s proximity to a variety of teams and stadiums, including college football at Arizona State University’s Mountain America Stadium and the Los Angeles Angels baseball spring training at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
—Katie Seemann, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2024
Crawford, 36, is in the middle of a playoff push with the St. Louis Cardinals, and the 37-year-old Sandoval, after a brief appearance in spring training, is playing for the independent Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks with no signs of slowing down.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
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