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The only out that lets the pitcher take all the credit.
means An out in baseball where the batter fails to put the ball in play after accumulating three strikes.
from From 'strike,' which entered baseball in the mid-1800s meaning a swing-and-miss or a pitch through the hittable zone the batter didn't swing at — itself from the old English/Germanic sense of striking as hitting or landing a blow. 'Strike three' became shorthand for the batter's failure, and 'strikeout' emerged as the compound noun naming the whole event. The phrase traveled beyond the ballpark too, where 'to strike out' now just means to fail at something, a legacy of the game's grip on everyday language.
- backwards K
- Scorebooks use a backward K for looking strikeout
- record holder
- Nolan Ryan struck out 5714 batters, nobody close
- golden sombrero
- Slang for striking out four times in one game
- origin
- Term predates baseball, borrowed from cricket slang