reach first base informal
get to first base

If the second one gets his question right, he goes to first base.

If four of these are thrown, the batter gets to go to first base for free.

Then the third one goes to first base, and the bases are loaded.

If they get it right they go to first base.

If he goes to first base, maybe we get out of the jam."

A batter hit by a pitch had no option but to go to first base.

"You either throw to the side or you go to first base."

"Jason told him to shut his mouth and go to first base.

"The first batter has earned the right to go to first base.

"He is not concerned about the direction of the club, does not want to be traded and is fine going to first base."

A hit batsman cannot go to first base if he attempts to hit the pitch that hits him.

He is hitless in his last 11 at-bats and appeared to be running at about 70 percent as he went to first base Friday.

"I really feel he'll go to first base," said Lasorda, the former Dodgers manager, who now works in their front office.

"A lot of third basemen come in and just take the sure out and go to first base," Brady Anderson said.

Or go to first base?"

Gooden could have gone to first base and waited for the next inning to retaliate against one of Philadelphia's batters.

The next batter, Larry Bowa was hit by a pitch, and went to first base, loading the bases.

Does Rhyssa know we're going to First Base?

Bellinger went to first base.

Hayes went to first base after he was hit, but was removed and sent to a hospital when the Phillies took the field for the seventh.

"Any time I hit a ball and I go to first base that way," he said, "99 percent of the time, it's out of here."

One possible scenario has Kent going to first base and either Vina or Veras at second.

Although Strawberry was hit one inning following his 36th home run of the season and a deliberate trip around the bases, he quietly went to first base.

When the umpire tells you to go to first base, you go to first base.

The ball fell behind Jeter and in front of Curtis, becoming a single for Bragg, who maybe should have gone to first base four pitches earlier.

He reached first base on a force play and did not score a run.

By the bottom of the fifth, neither team had reached first base.

Somehow, I reached first base in that game and then took off to steal second.

It was far better to hit a fly out than to reach first base on four balls.

Young wasn't aware until the last out that no one had reached first base.

After all, he reached first base safely without the runner from there being put out at second.

He slipped trying to recover, and that was all the time Smith needed to reach first base.

But, before Rodriguez reached first base, he was talking to himself about his misfortune.

Charles then bats out of turn and makes a safe hit, reaching first base.

A player who reaches first base safely on a hit is credited with a single.

By the time he reached first base, he was a casualty.

Robinson reached first base and took a wide turn.

For molly, who'd only ever reached first base with a boy, it was a horrible sensation.

Once he reaches first base, he can think about stealing second.

James had reached first base and was headed for second before someone finally yelled to throw the ball.

But he strained the hamstring a few strides before reaching first base.

When Reyes reaches first base, some players have told him, it's like hitting a triple.

The batter may then attempt to reach first base and must be tagged or thrown out.

A player with two strikes against him is automatically struck out and cannot attempt to reach first base.

The act of safely reaching first base after batting the ball into fair territory.

And if getting a roof over your own head is a growing struggle, you have hardly reached first base for creating wealth.

It was not until Ruocchio reached first base that he began to understand what had just happened.

When he did reach first base, he was replaced by a pinch-runner.

This gives the batter time to reach first base safely before the ball can be fielded.

In the first inning, he reached first base and was thrown out trying to steal.