# putout

Pronunciation: say "PUUT-owt" /ˈpʊtˌaʊt/

## Noun

1. In baseball, a play in which a batter is put out.
   - Simple: In baseball, a play that gets a batter out.
   - _The shortstop fielded the grounder cleanly and threw to first for the putout._
   - _Her leaping catch at the fence turned a sure double into a putout._
2. In baseball, the statistic that counts how many outs a defensive player has directly made.
   - Simple: In baseball, a count of the outs that a player in the field makes directly.
   - _The center fielder finished the year with a league-leading 380 putouts._
   - _Scouts care less about his putout total than about how much ground he covers._

## Origin

Formed as a noun from the phrasal verb put out.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/putout (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).