innings

/ ˈɪnɪŋz /

noun

functioning as singular cricket
1. the batting turn of a player or team
2. the runs scored during such a turn
sometimes singular a period of opportunity or action
functioning as plural land reclaimed from the sea

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Once again he could throw his fastball for strikes with impunity--for six or seven innings at least.

In his career, he's walked home many runs, but in more than thirty-eight hundred innings, Palmer has never given up a grand slam.

Tanaka then settled into a groove, pitching shut-out ball for the next five innings, fanning eight as the Yankees won 7-3.

By 14, he was a bartender whose heroes were the softball players who raced into the bar for a beer between innings.

One year he struck out 262 men in 170 innings, walked as many, and finished 7–15.

I did not tell him that the total score of my innings was "one."

The first innings in single wicket must be determined by chance.

It's my innings now, gov'nor, and as soon as I catches hold o' this 'ere Trotter, I'll have a good 'un.'

You showed good form in the first innings, and it was a very unlucky ball that settled you so soon.

Hicks was good for four or five innings, but he was unable to keep up the strain through an entire game.

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