small ball

See also: smallball

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small ball (uncountable)

  1. (baseball, slang) A baseball strategy that relies on baserunning, singles, and hitting for average rather than hitting home runs.
    Antonym: power hitting
  2. (figurative) Any strategy that involves proceeding by small increments.
    • 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
      The result was a new kind of “small ball” platform that confounded Clinton’s cabinet.
    • 2025 June 13, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Meta Bets on Scale + Apple’s A.I. Struggles + Listeners on Job Automation”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      Yes. It was such a small ball presentation. I did watch the event from afar, and I gotta say it was very strange to watch these Apple executives get on stage and express delirious enthusiasm over adding polls to iMessage.
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