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What is a pickoff?

What is a pickoff? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (baseball) A play in which a pitcher throws a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who has moved away from the base
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But he walked five batters, and in the bottom of the first, his errant pickoff attempt and subsequent wild pitch gave Luis Castillo two extra bases after he had singled to center.
Every inning seemed to feature runners on base, full counts, pickoff throws, pitching changes, and breaks to go wake up spectators who may have dozed off.
Japanese players, he noted, also do not call time out and dust themselves off each time they dive back to first base on a pickoff attempt.
Jon Berti led off with a single and went to third when Rea made a wild pickoff attempt.
Bogaerts scored one out later when first baseman Joe Mauer dropped a pickoff throw.
It can accommodate up to 20 tools, 15 of them driven and can be equipped optionally with C1 and C4-axes for main and pickoff spindles respectively.

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