[Ads-l] Crooked number

[victor steinbok]

I'm sure this predates me by several decades but I'm increasingly noticing
"crooked number" in baseball slang. In particular, the full expression is
"put a crooked number on the board", but abbreviated versions exist as
well. Here, the crooked number is 4.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/27/yankees-gerrit-cole-ambushed-by-red-sox/
That crooked number was hard for us to overcome.


VS-)

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