| ONAHOP | After one bounce, in baseball lingo |
| AHOP | One bounce, in baseball |
| ONEHOP | Single bounce, in baseball |
| RICOCHET | How one bounces back after being fired (8) |
| CHECK | A bad one bounces |
| HOTCORNER | Third base, in baseball lingo, or one of four in this puzzle |
| ONEAWAY | Situation after the first out, in baseball lingo |
| SOLOSHOT | Homer with one RBI, in baseball lingo |
| PULLHITTER | One whose batted balls rarely go to the opposite field, in baseball lingo |
| FIVETOOLPLAYER | One excelling at hitting for average, hitting for power, fielding, throwing and running, in baseball lingo |
| PASS | Base on balls, in baseball lingo |
| GAMER | Winning hit, in baseball lingo |
| SKIED | Popped up, in baseball lingo |
| GODEEP | Smack a homer, in baseball lingo |
| NAILED | Threw out on the basepaths, in baseball lingo |
| HEAT | Fastball, in baseball lingo |
| KITCHEN | Too-close-inside area, in baseball lingo |
| HIGHANDAWAY | Like some bad pitches, in baseball lingo |
| HOTCWALL | Third base, in baseball lingo |
| SOLOHOMER | What a "singleton" is, in baseball lingo |
