soak the runner

English

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soak the runner (third-person singular simple present soaks the runner, present participle soaking the runner, simple past and past participle soaked the runner)

  1. (baseball, slang, 1800s) To throw the ball at the runner in order to "tag" him out (illegal after 1845).

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