top of the inning

1. 1.

   the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat

   “a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth”

   Synonymstop

   Broaderturn

   Part ofinning

Questions about top of the inning

What does top of the inning mean?

top of the inning means "the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat".

What is another word for top of the inning?

Close synonyms include top. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is top of the inning a common word?

top of the inning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.