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come to bat en · VERB
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To have one's turn at bat.
In that case, the player who was called out for failure to come to bat properly is charged with having been put out, and whatever happened that resulted in the improper batter being put out goes into the scoring box of the batter who failed to bat in proper turn.
2015, Andres Wirkmaa, The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook, →ISBN:New Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.
The value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.
2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:
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To argue in defense of.
Unfortunately, if anybody above [the manager] or around her cared, they didn't come to bat for me.
2012, Leslie Neal-Boylan, Nurses With Disabilities: Professional Issues and Job Retention, →ISBN:
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