<Dl> <Dd> A Texas Leaguer (or Texas League single) is a weakly hit fly ball that drops in for a single between an infielder and an outfielder . These are now more commonly referred to as flares, bloopers, or "bloop singles". Most colorfully called a' gork shot' or a' duck snort .' See blooper . </Dd> <Dd> The term is said to have originated when Ollie Pickering, a popular Texas League player, made his major league debut and proceeded to run off a string of seven straight bloop hits, leading fans and writers to say,' Well, there goes Pickering with another one of those "Texas Leaguers"' . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> A Texas Leaguer (or Texas League single) is a weakly hit fly ball that drops in for a single between an infielder and an outfielder . These are now more commonly referred to as flares, bloopers, or "bloop singles". Most colorfully called a' gork shot' or a' duck snort .' See blooper . </Dd> <Dd> The term is said to have originated when Ollie Pickering, a popular Texas League player, made his major league debut and proceeded to run off a string of seven straight bloop hits, leading fans and writers to say,' Well, there goes Pickering with another one of those "Texas Leaguers"' . </Dd> <Dl> <Dd> Line stat credited to a pitcher retiring one out of a full inning . For convenience in print, however, a pitcher who goes 4 and one - third innings might be shown in the box score as completing 4.1 innings, as compared with a pitcher who goes four and two - thirds innings for whom the box score would show 4.2 . </Dd> </Dl>

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