| 词源 |
bunt. The bunt in baseball, used mostly by a batter as a sacri- fice play to advance another runner into better scoring posi- tion, is probably a corruption of the word butt, which sounds like bunt when spoken through the nose. Hitters butt at the ball with the bat when they bunt. Bunt dates back to at least 1872, when the strategy’s first use is recorded by a player named Pearce on the Brooklyn Atlantics. |