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on deck idiomUS In baseball, if a player is on deck, they have the next turn to bat (= try to hit the ball) after the player who is batting now: Williams was at bat with Rodriguez on deck. I badly wanted to get this guy out because there was a dangerous hitter on deck. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Baseball & rounders 1-2-3 inning ahead alley around the hornidiom at bat bomb curve heater hit the ball out of the parkidiom hitting coach home plate home stand horsehide sac spitter split-fingered fastball splitter squeeze play starting pitcher swing |