inning

/ˈɪnɪŋ/

/ˈɪnɪŋ/

Other forms: innings

Most baseball games are divided into nine innings. Each inning gives both teams a chance to be up at bat until they get three strikes.

Cricket was the first sport to mark periods in innings, or "a team's turn in action during a game," emphasis on the in. While a cricket match can have four innings, the majority of baseball games have nine (though in the case of a tie, an unlimited number of extra innings can be added at the end of a game). At the start of each new inning (and half-inning), the teams switch places and the umpire yells, "Play ball!"

Definitions of inning

1. noun

   (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
   synonyms: frame

   type of:

   division, part, section

   one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole