baseballese en · NOUN
Etymology
From baseball + -ese.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The jargon associated with the sport of baseball.
After 7 years of being in a rot league, I have learned that "day to day" in baseballese means "at least a week, maybe more, and maybe after the week, then we may DL him."
1996 June 3, Joe in MA [username], “Re: Jim Edmonds' return date?”, in rec.sport.baseball.fantasy (Usenet):Back-back-back-back went Cardinals shortstop Pete Kozma. Twenty feet back of the infield dirt. Thirty feet. Forty feet. Fifty feet. Sixty feet. Finally, he raised his arms in the air -- which, in baseball-ese, is the international symbol for "I've got it."
2012 October 6, Jayson Stark, “The pop-up heard ‘round the world”, in ESPN: