Talk:up the middle

up the middle
The unhelpful definition is "being hit up the middle of the field, usually around the second base area.", which is entirely correct. Sure a ball hit up the middle is just hit + up + the + middle. By way of comparison, would we want an entry for in the corner for a ball hit, um, in the corner? --Mglovesfun (talk) 16:45, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Whoever entered all the definitions clearly had a better ability to skirt WT:CFI. In contrast with this and some other  definitions, those definitions carefully avoid any obvious NISoP wording, no matter how NISoP or vacuous they actually are. See, for example, the cricket sense at [[middle]], which unwarrantedly enshrines what is either an ellipsis or a fused-modifier-head construction. DCDuring TALK  19:26, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually we are missing a second cricketing sense of middle:. See, as an example from Google books "... Little Dando, who took middle, patted the ground, and looked round at the fieldsmen ...". SemperBlotto 21:24, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Also down the line (in baseball) up the line (in tennis), neither of which we have. Down the line has a different, idiomatic meaning. Referring to baseball pitches, you could have down the middle or on the corner. All of these I've just cited, seem to me to be just literal use of the words, but in a sentence. --Mglovesfun (talk) 20:58, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. — Ungoliant (Falai) 17:25, 12 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Deleted. - -sche (discuss) 21:31, 6 October 2012 (UTC)