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plural pickoffs
(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 quotations examples
Zobrist broke for third during Pettitte’s pickoff move, stealing the base when Pettitte threw behind the runner.
2007 April 6, Tyler Kepner, “Pettitte’s Return Lost Amid Sloppy Play”, in New York Times