basket catch

noun

, Baseball.

1. a catch made with open glove with the palm up and the wrist kept close to and in front of the body.

Word History and Origins

Origin of basket catch¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; from a ball falling into a glove as an apple would into a basket

Example Sentences

García, 21, smacked a double and that towering homer and made a pair of sweet plays at second, adding a basket catch to help Suero through the ninth.

From Washington Post