eight-spot
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Anyhow, the M's now trail 12-2 after Anthony Vasquez and Jeff Gray combined to give up an eight-spot in the fifth inning.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2011
Their eight-spot Thursday - with all the runs coming in the final four innings - was exactly half of the 16 they had scored combined in the previous nine games of their 4-6 road trip.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2011
Their eight-spot Thursday — with all the runs coming in the final four innings — was exactly half of the 16 they had scored combined in the previous nine games of their 4-6 road trip.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2011
The spirits couldn’t tell her where the old man could nail a job or find a gold-mine or mark an eight-spot in Chinese lottery.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by London, Jack
"But as long as he's goin' to welsh on us I hope he lavishes the eight-spot where it'll do him some good."
From Gullible's Travels, Etc. by Lardner, Ring
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