Baseball Pet Names

These baseball terms would make awesome pet names for any baseball fan. My favorites are Blooper, Dugout, Homer, Mitt and Spike. Share your favorites in the comments!

Ace - the best pitcher on a team
Ash - slang for a baseball bat
Bazooka - slang for a strong throwing arm
Bender - slang for a curveball
Bingle - slang for a single.
Blast - slang for a home run
Blooper - a weak fly ball
Bullpen - area where the relief pitchers warm up
Bunt - to deliberately hit the ball weakling to a spot on the infield
Cheese - a fastball that is easy to hit.
Chopper - a ball that strikes the dirt in front of home plate
Clutch - good performance under pressure
Deuce - a curveball, because the catcher's sign for a curveball uses two fingers
Dinger - a home run
Dirt Dog - nickname for a scrappy player
Dugout - where the team's bench is located
Duster - a pitch thrown close to the batter
Fungo - a fly ball hit to practice catching
Homer - a home run
Hopper - a batted ball that takes several bounces
Looper - a softly hit ball that drops in between the infielders and outfielders
Maddux - a game where the pitcher throws a complete game shutout on 99 or fewer pitches
Mitt - a baseball glove
Pepper - a pregame exercize where one played bunts ground balls to a group of fielders
Pickle - slang for a rundown. where a runner is stranded between two bases
Pitch - throwing the ball to the batter
Rainbow - a curveball with a high arc
Slide - when a runner drops to the ground when running to the base to avoid a tag
Spike - When a runner slides into an infielder and causing an injury with the spikes of his shoes
Squibber - when the ball is hit off the end of the bat with the batter swinging very late causing a side spin on the ball
Strike - when the batter misses the pitch
Triple - a three base hit
Twirler - an old fashioned term for the pitcher
Zinger - a hart hit line drive base hit

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