Usually means: Removing baserunner from base stealthily.
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  3. pickoff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. pickoff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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noun:  (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

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