[Ads-l] baseball lingo: to shove (intr)

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

A check of the Internet (baseball lingo, shove) turns up:
"Shoving" refers to putting all your chips on the line. If a pitcher shoves, they are putting everything they have into that appearance. Basically going right at the opponent and either winning outright or....

So the meaning for the baseball context is that the
pitcher gave it his all.

Jerry Cohen


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Weird--both the term and the fact that it has somehow escaped me for a long
enough period of time that it goes back to when Matt "The Dark Knight"
Harvey was actually pitching well for the Mets.  I'm familiar with the
poker term: while "shove" is intransitive in that use too, it's clearly
derived from an unspecified object transitive--shoving all one's
chips/money into the pot.  Can't see how that relates to the baseball use.

LH

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:05=E2=80=AFPM Charles C Rice <charles.rice at louisi=
ana.edu>
wrote:

> I just noticed this usage today and it took some digging to figure it out=
.
> It seems to mean "pitched shut out innings" or similar.
>
> An article headline in Saturday's Fansided<
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> says "Braves: Jesse Chavez replacement returned to MLB after over 1,000
> days and shoved." The first paragraph reads:
>
> The Atlanta Braves got a huge boost from their bullpen in the wake of the
> Jesse Chavez injury by way of Ben Heller on Friday night vs. the Colorado
> Rockies.
>
> Ben Heller appears to be one helluva Jesse Chavez replacement for the
> Atlanta Braves<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffansided.com%2Fmlb%2Fmlb-teams%2Fatlanta-braves&data=05%7C01%7Cgcohen%40MST.EDU%7C77b32d44ce9b40fc17ae08db7101b899%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C638228024417069149%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=xScP77iHYHkBHLHFwuDjQfOMVhsGjI6TLN%2Bf27lF2Xc%3D&reserved=0<http://fansided.com/mlb/mlb-teams/atlanta-braves>>, alright=
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>
> Chavez is the spirit animal of the bullpen. Combined, he and Charlie
> Morton are pushing 100 years old, but it had been over 1,000 days since
> Heller last pitched in a big-league game. With Chavez going down with a
> left shin contusion, it was Heller's time to shine. He had not pitched in
> the big leagues since early Sept. 2020 when he was with the New York
> Yankees. Heller shoved on Friday.
>
> He struck out five of the eight batters he faced, walking one and allowin=
g
> two hits over two innings. Heller was exceptional in his return to the
> Major Leagues. Braves Country was loving it<
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> >.
>
> I could not figure out what Heller was said to have done. I searched MLB
> text and found a March 1, 2020 article, "Maples throws BP; Morrow hurt;
> Lester shoves" by Russell Dorsey. Down in the third section we find the
> description of what Lester did:
>
> Left-hander Jon Lester<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fplayer%2F452657&data=05%7C01%7Cgcohen%40MST.EDU%7C77b32d44ce9b40fc17ae08db7101b899%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C638228024417069149%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=epzVp4eRgrKh0M4M4Z%2F5G3C0YyTN%2Bewjc9g98pTAxgk%3D&reserved=0<https://www.mlb.com/player/452657>> had a solid
> outing as he tossed three shutout innings in the Cubs' 7-3 victory over t=
he
> Mariners<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mlb.com%2Fgameday%2F604157&data=05%7C01%7Cgcohen%40MST.EDU%7C77b32d44ce9b40fc17ae08db7101b899%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C638228024417069149%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=taz%2F%2BCPV2WVlMDRP4NJwTCRizEjG%2Bfd0e7U6pjzaOpo%3D&reserved=0<https://www.mlb.com/gameday/604157>> on Sunday at Sloan Park.
> Lester allowed two hits, struck out four batters and did not allow a walk=
.
>
> So it seems to specifically refer to shut-out pitching rather than just
> good pitching in general.
>
> Urban Dictionary has it from 2013:
>
> Shoving
>
> A term in baseball to describe a pitching who is dominating opposing
> batters.
>
> Example: Matt Harvey of the Mets is shoving right now. He has 8 strikeout=
s
> and no walks in three innings.
>
> by RedBeard53, June 18, 2013
>
>
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