pickoff

in baseball, throw by a pitcher to a fielder so the fielder can tag out a runner who is leading off or trying to steal the next base
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pickoff

Summary

pickoff ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (55 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • pickoff's image is recorded as 20170718 Dodgers-WhiteSox Clayton Kershaw pickoff throw.jpg[2].
  • pickoff's subclass of is recorded as throwing[3].
  • pickoff's subclass of is recorded as fielding[4].
  • pickoff's has part is recorded as tag out[5].
  • pickoff's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05_yn4[6].
  • pickoff's participant is recorded as pitcher[7].
  • pickoff's participant is recorded as defense[8].
  • pickoff's different from is recorded as pitch[9].
  • pickoff's Quora topic ID is recorded as Pickoff[10].
  • pickoff's has goal is recorded as prevention[11].
  • pickoff's has goal is recorded as out[12].
  • pickoff's KBpedia ID is recorded as Pickoff[13].
  • pickoff's WikiBaseball ID is recorded as 牽制[14].

Why It Matters

pickoff ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (55 views/month).[1] pickoff has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] pickoff is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). pickoff. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/pickoff
MLA “pickoff.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/pickoff.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pickoff_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{pickoff}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pickoff}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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