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Line-Up: A team’s batting order and fielding positions

Starting Line-Up: The five players who begin a game for one team.

Pinch Hitter: A hitter who substitutes in the line-up for a starting player. The original batter can’t return to the game, so the pinch hitter or a third person takes over the defensive position as well.

Designated Hitter: Player who bats in the pitcher’s spot in the line-up. The DH does not have a fielding position.

Batting Order: The offensive line-up of a team that lists the player will bat. The batting order is given to the umpire before each game.

Syntagmatic Structure: In semiotics, the manner in which signs are linearly and/or temporally organized. E.g., the batting line-up in baseball is in syntagmatic order. See paradigmatic structure.

Lead-Off: The first bowler in the line-up of a team.

Paradigmatic Structure: In semiotics, a manner in which signs are organized and meaning created. Paradigmatic structures create meaning through association, in contrast to syntagmatic structures which create meanin . . . View Full Definition