Complete Clue List
Across
1. Chickpea
5. If you can't beat 'em, do this (4,2)
10. Big hit (4,3)
11. Add insult to injury (3,2,2)
12. Ambulance letters
14. Cash, slangily
16. Minute Maid Park team
17. Unpleasant, the pits, like the 16A sign stealing scandal (3,4)
18. The World Series takes place in the ____ and Canada (init.)
20. Umpire's cry (with "ball") at the start of a baseball game
22. Sorry state, like a run-down sporting venue
23. Catcher's place
25. Batting stat. derived from 6D (init.)
27. Blue Jays' home
30. Florida player
31. Anaheim team
32. Tampa Bay player
34. Baseball manoeuvre (with "play") involving a sacrifice bunt with a runner on third
35. Glasses and goggles
36. Satisfy
37. Gets overly emotional (6,2)
Down
1. Run from third base (2,4)
2. Strict disciplinarians
3. Lofty, up in the sky
4. Strike ____: pitches passing through here are called strikes, even if the batter does not swing
6. Getting to first, second or third when batting (2-4)
7. 1984 baseball movie "The ____" featuring Robert Redford as the mysterious Roy Hobbs
8. Imagination, athlete's visualisation technique (5,3)
9. Sluggers' stats.
13. Home state for The Twins
15. 16A city
16. Home of the Braves
19. Sports drink suffix
20. Major-leaguer (abbr.)
21. Okay sign (6-2)
24. Pavilion
26. Milwaukee team
27. Detroit team
28. Batting next (2-4)
29. Letter-shaped shoe fastener (1-5)
32. Cincinnati ballplayer
33. Slangy assent