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How to pronounce inning in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms frame
Type of part, division, section

Examples of inning

inning
Boston reliever Hideki Okajima worked a scoreless inning in his 51st appearance.
From the washingtontimes.com
Reyes walked the first batter he faced but induced an inning-ending double play.
From the bostonherald.com
I just watched him fiddle around in the sixth inning more than he normally does.
From the dailyherald.com
After a four-pitch first inning, he labored at times but allowed minimal damage.
From the kansas.com
Troy Tulowitzki rounds third base after hitting a home run in the second inning.
From the denverpost.com
The Angels got to Reds reliever Jared Burton for four runs in the eighth inning.
From the kentucky.com
The Royals scored first by nicking Hughes for a two-out run in the first inning.
From the kansas.com
Davies departed after Franklin Gutierrez's leadoff single in the seventh inning.
From the kansas.com
He not only saved four games, but he pitched in late-inning pressure situations.
From the suntimes.com
More examples
  • (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
  • (innings) the batting turn of a cricket player or team
  • Inning is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, in the district of Starnberg, in the Regierungsbezirk of Oberbayern.
  • An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports - most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. ...
  • The National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a Major League Baseball playoff series played from October 7 to October 15 to determine the champion of the National League, between the Central Division champion Chicago Cubs and the wild-card qualifying Florida Marlins. ...
  • A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. ...
  • (innings) One side's or individual's turn to bat (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out,) or the runs scored during those timeframes; The time during which any party is in possession of power; a turn of any kind
  • (Innings) The part of the game in which the side is batting.
  • (Innings) A couple of meanings for this word: A) The time a batsman spends batting is called his innings. So scoring 90 would be good 'innings'. Hell, 90 would be a bloody miracle in our team!