Don’t be alarmed when your son tells you after the baseball game that he was told to put on a “suicide squeeze.” And mom, he hasn’t turned into a baker after “laying down a bunt.” Well, the weather isn’t changing when the coach asks the pitcher to “bring on the heat.” But, maybe the following list of terms, slang and phrases will enlighted your baseball vocabulary.

I was an extremely proud parent after watching a junior varsity baseball game last week at Manchester Memorial high school. It wasn’t the efforts of the players on the field, but what happened before the game started.