double play
(US, colloquial) Achieving two results from one action.
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Only the first one is actually a double play. The other thing is called a double work.
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Brewers prospect Braylon Payne -- an easy plus-plus runner -- makes a sliding snag in center field for High-A Wisconsin and gets a double play on sleeping Peoria baserunner Ian Petrutz:
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(US, colloquial) Achieving two results from one action.
Our double play special tonight is scallops & crab.
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(baseball, softball) A defensive play in which two outs are recorded.
It was a 6-4-3 double play.
“Brewers prospect Braylon Payne -- an easy plus-plus runner -- makes a sliding snag in center field for High-A Wisconsin and gets a double play on sleeping Peoria baserunner Ian Petrutz:”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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