walk-offs before "walk off"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/9/2013 05:48 PM, Geoffrey Nunberg wrote:
>It's interesting that you see "walk-off error"
>and even "walk-off balk" as well, though they
>don't make a lot of sense, unless the defensive player is doing the walking


Well, the player scoring walks (or sometimes needs to run) off.

Joel

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