Indeed it had pretty nearly been a tie game all the way through, and it might go to ten innings or more.
For three innings neither side got a run, goose eggs going up in regular succession until, as is generally the case "pitchers' fight" began to be heard spoken on the stands and side lines.
Ted Clay, the pitcher, was twirling in great form it was said, and Sam Morton, as substitute, was sure to go in for several innings in the final contest.
I suppose, at the outside, our innings had lasted half an hour.
The order of the innings was this: the ball hit each man five times, and the wickets once.
You might have seen us there, side by side, during the greater part of the Gentlemen's firstinnings against the Players (who had lost the toss) on the second Monday in July.
In the second innings Rayner put up a fine century and Martin made a pleasing thirty: had he resisted the temptation to cut "the uncuttable," he would have stayed in and served his house better.
But to lose three wickets in one over of the last inningsis startling, and Randall's were rattled, despite their stodginess.
For the next two innings the sides were mowed down with unfailing regularity, and not a man on either side reached first base.
Before the game had gone three innings it was seen that both these gladiators were out to do or die.
That's the first hit they've got off you in six innings and it ought to have been a single only.
That means that we'll have to get busy and win in the first five innings before the rain comes," laughed Jim.
He certainly pitched pretty good ball in those last three innings to-day, and I'll see how he warms up to-morrow before the game.
Contrary to Robson's prediction, the Boston manager elected still to pin his faith to Roth, who tightened up after his bad start and for the next three innings held the Giants scoreless.
There were eight innings more to come and in that time many things might happen.
For four innings he turned back the New Yorks, who seemed to have lost all the hitting ability they had shown the day before.
For four innings it looked as though his prophecy would be fulfilled.
In the next three innings they only garnered four more hits, and of these only two were "Simon pure.
For three innings the contest was a pitchers' battle.
For the next two innings it looked very much as though that one run would be enough to win the game, for Mason settled down and pitched air-tight ball and added four more strike-outs to his credit.
It had been decided that Tom was to pitch only three innings of the morning's game and that Way was to finish out.
Payne, the last man, just succeeded in cracking his duck's-egg, and the innings closed for 104.
This brilliant feat, coupled with the gallant manner in which he had continued his innings when hurt, and so enabled Oaks to run up the score, caused the black sheep of the Sixth Form to be regarded as the hero of the day.
The captain commenced his innings with a heart-warming leg hit, which sent the ball to the boundary, a wave of legs and arms marking its track as the spectators, with a joyous yell, rolled over one another to escape being hit.
For five innings the game went on without a hit, a run or an error on either side.
True, the game Pop had played at centre for the full nine innings was with the near-tailenders of the Central League, but it showed that the veteran had "come back" sufficiently to last through the hard work.
On one occasion the game had gone for nine innings without a run on either side, and only scattered hits.
But he was well supported by the fielders and basemen, and three innings ran along with the visitors securing nothing but zero tallies.
Though they're not really mine; Inningsbrought them here.
After this Templeton seemed to lose heart, their batting quite collapsed, and the innings closed for seventy-nine, two of the remaining three wickets falling to Joan, while Edna captured the last by an amazingly swift full pitch.
The next moment her bails were flying, and she returned to the pavilion amid hearty applause for a useful innings of fourteen.
So the innings ended for forty-nine, and the Hivites won by seventy-one runs.
The Hivites began their second innings thirty-seven runs to the bad.
The Hittites only wanted a hundred and twenty to win; but a hundred and twenty is a big figure to compile out of the fourth innings of a house-match, when nerves are snapping like fiddle-strings.
Pip's admission to the national Pantheon had been secured by the fact of his having been mainly responsible for the sensational dismissal of the Australians, for an infinitesimal score, in the second innings of the third Test Match.
The wicket-keeper whipped off the bails in a flash, and the innings was over.
Marsh, it was true, was playing theinnings of his life.
The Gentlemen of the County began their second innings after lunch.
Well, if he bowls as he did last innings Martin won't get the chance, 'cause Pip will give us all the runs we want in one over.
He would then toss down a few practice balls to the wicket-keeper, and, after a final glance round the field, proceed to bring the Hittite innings to an inglorious conclusion.
In the first innings the club headed their opponents by five runs only, and in the second innings had 50 runs to get.
But the remarkable feature of the innings was the short time in which so many runs were made--exactly three hours.
Upon the Saturday of the semi-final house match, in which the Manor had won a great victory by an innings and twenty-three runs, John went to Desmond's room after prayers.
Visions of a single innings victory engross the minds of these three.
The beginning of the Cambridge second innings was most flattering to Oxford.
For fiveinnings he pitched great ball and kept the league hitters to two runs, while the Yale team, finding themselves, batted out seven runs by clean hitting and fast base-running.
Nip and tuck, the teams played for five innings with no runs scored on either side.
When the editor of the Tichborne Gazette claimed an innings it was another matter; and--perhaps with lack of esprit de corps--I decamped.
Jack says I'll have my innings when I am an old lady--that I'll not be pretty till I'm old.
It was now time for her flirt to have an innings with Joyce.
And this--these few years--was his time, his innings before the silence that preceded closed in on him again.
This is a five-inning game, and Grant has pitched two innings already; you can hand 'em up the last three.
You caught it sitting on the bench during the last four innings of that game, I reckon.
Each side having been in once and out once, the first innings is concluded, and, we might say, a complete game has been played, but in most matches another innings is played.
The first innings in single wicket must be determined by chance.
If the bet be made upon both innings, and one party beats the other in one innings, the runs in the first innings shall determine it.
If five complete innings have been played when the game stops, the score always stands and the team ahead is declared the winner.
After three players are put out, the other side has its "innings," and at the completion of nine full innings the side having scored the greatest number of runs is the winner.
A pitcher who stands up for nineinnings is obliged to do a tremendous amount of work and if he becomes tired or stiff toward the end of the game he will probably be at the mercy of the opposing batsmen.
A game consists of nine full innings unless called by rain, darkness or for some other cause.
With the disposal of our antagonists so easily at the end, we began our second innings with more sanguine expectations than could have been imagined from our previous prostration.
His last over in that firstinnings of the Inimitables, however, was the crowning point in his victorious career.
Young Black had scored by that time no less than eighty off his own bat, and Hardy forty-one, after being in to their own cheek exactly as long as the Inimitables' whole innings lasted.
The interesting malkohas will not get aninnings to-day.
A pitcher who was merely a "speed merchant" could not have lasted three innings against the Wolves, who "ate speed.
I pitched four innings against the Jacksonville Reds and five against the Cuban Giants.
Throughout five innings the southpaw succeeded in restraining Wiley, and during that portion of the game the Viennas found Jones for nine singles and two doubles, accumulating four runs.
It must not be imagined that the Wolves did not hit the ball at all, but for a long time they could not seem to hit it safely, and for four innings they could not get a runner on.
I very much doubt if the Grays would have won had not Cap'n Wiley insisted upon pitching the opening innings for his team.
Their defeat by aninnings and fifty-three runs they attributed subsequently to the fact that only seven of the team could be induced to go to the wickets in the second venture.
When the innings concluded, blood had been spilt--from an injured finger--but the total was a hundred and two.
The news having got about the school, Clephane and Mansfield opened their second innings to the somewhat embarrassed trundling of Masters Royce and Tibbit, of the Junior School, before a substantial and appreciative audience.
What I mean to say is, cricket's compulsory here, so I suppose they've all had an innings or two at one time or another in the eightieth game or so.
This last was Wilkins' own and was, as he would have been the first to admit, substantially helped by a contribution of nineteen in a single innings in the fifth game.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "innings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bout; chance; opportunity; place; relief; round; say; spell; turn; whack
