scoring position, in

Idioms  

1. About to succeed, as in The publisher is in scoring position with that instant book about the trial. This term comes from sports, where it signifies being in a spot where scoring is likely. In baseball it refers to a situation in which a runner is on second or third base. The figurative use of the term dates from the second half of the 1900s.

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Example Sentences

After that, only one other baserunner even reached scoring position in what was Yamamoto’s fifth start this season of at least seven innings and no more than one run.

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Unlike Tatis’ hit by pitch, which came with a runner in scoring position in an inning that saw the Padres score two runs, Ohtani’s plunking occurred amid more suspicious circumstances.

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The Dodgers, who stranded 21 baserunners while going one for 25 with runners in scoring position in the first two games in St. Louis, took their first lead of the series in the second inning when Max Muncy, Will Smith and former Cardinal Tommy Edman all singled to center ahead of Hyeseong Kim’s two-run triple to right.

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They are one for 25 with runners in scoring position in their two games in St. Louis.

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Abigail Knight delivered the big blow off Fisher with a two-run double in the fifth, and the Gamecocks nearly ended the afternoon early on the run rule with the winning run reaching scoring position in the sixth.

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