Definition & Meaning | English word BALKS
BALKS
Definitions of BALKS
- inflection of balk
- plural of balk.
- plural of Balk.
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using BALKS in a Sentence
- A few weeks after ejecting pitcher Bob Shaw due to an argument about balks, Barlick called Fred Fleig, the secretary of the National League, and said, “I'm fed up with the whole thing and I am going to quit and go home.
- Knuckleballer Charlie Hough was once called for nine balks in a single major league exhibition game, occurring in March 1988.
- Other events not shown in the example but recorded in most box scores include sacrifice hits ("S"), triple plays ("TP"), balks ("BK"), blown saves ("BS"), and passed balls ("PB").
- In response, the Senior Circuit's arbiters called 74 balks from the opening of the season on April 8 until April 26, when Giles announced a relaxation of the policy.
- Jones agreed to raise the Black Pearl from the depths for thirteen years in exchange for Jack Sparrow's soul but Jack reneges on his obligation, and balks at renegotiated terms requiring recruiting 100 souls to redeem his own soul.
- While Buck initially balks at the suggestion, he finally consents to the surgery and Molly makes a gradual but miraculous recovery, speaking fluidly and interacting with others in a normal way.
- In the earlier (and short-lived) "champions' game", there were four triangular balks, one at each corner, defined by single diagonal balklines.
- January 8 – Learning that a club can now assess a player 30 dollars for his uniform and 50 cents a day to defray the cost of meals while the team is on the road, third baseman Joe Battin balks at signing a contract with St.
- Keith initially balks at the proposal but Keira threatens him with the fact that if people somehow find out: he will be considered a "pervert pothead who molests young girls".
- Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; W-L% = Win-Loss Percentage; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; GF = Games finished; CG = Complete game; SHO = Shutouts; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; HA = Hits allowed; RA = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HRA = Home runs allowed; BB = Base on Balls; IBB = Intentional base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; HBP = Times hit by a pitch; BK = Balks; WP = Wild pitches; BF = Batters faced.
- Shelton balks at the deal, and so Tophet renegotiates, claiming that it will be for a "trial period," urging Bobby to leave his earnest agent Charlie.
- The super structure of the Comboyne was unbolted from the deck, large balks of timber were placed athwart for the purpose of raising, and others fore and aft as supports, and the whole of this part of the vessel, weighing 35 tons, was lifted bodily off the boat, and placed on a lighter.
- Unable to outrun the attackers, Captain Peter Stapleton carried out evasive manoeuvres while under fire from the assailants' AK-47s and RPGs and had his crew ward off the invaders using water cannons, twistlocks and heavy balks of timber lashed to the guard rails.
- Pitchfork wrote that listening to the album whilst being aware of the process "is like imagining someone filling an Olympic-sized pool with an eye dropper: the mind balks, both at the enormity of the undertaking and at the disposition of the person behind it".
- Then a while later Balks miskicked into List's hands and he was able to score easily under the posts with the conversion giving his side a 23–4 lead.
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