The batsman was out, but the first runner stood safely on third base.
Seats were hard to find, but in the end they obtained them on a stand back of third base.
Back of third base, at the west end of the stand, the Robinson College band held forth brazenly at intervals, making up in vigor what it lacked in tunefulness.
If there is a runner on first, it should be thrown to third base, because if sent to second a bold runner will sometimes keep right on to third.
A coacher is one of the batting players who takes his position within certain prescribed limits near first or third base to direct base- runners and to urge them along.
Though not so high in rank as a batsman as some of his contemporaries, there was none in the organization who could equal his ability to get to third base on long hits.
Yerkes bunted and Tesreau whipped the ball tothird base ahead of Wood.
But Lord was too good an offensive player to take out of the game, in spite of his slump at third base, and he was willing to try the outfield.
In the Boston's half of the sixth Lewis began with a single and got as far as third base, but could not score.
His anxiety led him into making two foolish jabs at curves that were out of his reach, and finally he caught one just on the tip of his bat, and it went neatly into Tug's hand, leaving the catcher to perish on third base.
And then the right-fielder, half blinded with pain, threw the ball at nobody in particular, and it went into the crowd back of third base, and Tug came in unopposed.
He believed Williams was striving to lose the game, and that he was pitching so as to compel the batters to hit in the direction of third base so that the baseman and not he would be held responsible for the defeat.
Steinfeldt followed with a triple that brought Chance home and left the run which would win the game for the Cubs on third base.
This is usually successful unless the bunt is laid down perfectly along the first base line, so that the ball cannot be thrown to third base.
What sight on a ball field is prettier to the good judge of the fine points of the game, than to see a hard hit "bounder" well stopped and accurately thrown from back of third base over to first base in time to cut off a rapid runner?
The former are contests in which runners reaching second and even third base by good hits are cut off from scoring runs by superior pitching and fielding, and this class of games comprises the model contests of each season.
He was being attacked on the flank as well as in the rear, yet he was the sole barrier that France possessed against the piercing of its strategic diamond at "third base.
Conde, to the extreme left of the English troops, is 'third base.
The batter hit a high foul ball into the crowd back of third base.
He was busy with his batting order and signals for the coming game, but just before going to sleep he did wonder if the grass at Jefferson was longer and thicker at third base or at first.
Finally the teams marched onto the field, the University Band preceding them, but this time as they reached the plate, it was the maroon which sat on the bench back of third base, and the green went back of first.
In center is Thomas Beach, just as good in the field chasing flies as he was a couple of years ago at third base.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "third base" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
