noun
- Plural of innings; a period during which a team or player has a turn to bat in cricket or baseball.
Usage: In cricket, 'innings' is both singular and plural; 'inningses' is a nonstandard or colloquial plural form.; In baseball, the standard plural is 'innings' (nine innings), not 'inningses'.
Examples
- The team played several inningses before the rain stopped the match.
- In baseball, each team gets nine inningses to score runs.
- The batter had two inningses to prove his skill.
- After three inningses, the home team was already ahead by five runs.