injured list

[in-jerd list]

noun

Chiefly Baseball.

1. Formerly disabled list. the list to which a player’s name is formally added for a designated number of days when the player is injured or ill, during which time the team can replace the player on its roster. IL

Word History and Origins

Origin of injured list¹

First recorded in 1945–50 for basketball, and in 2015–20 for baseball; disabled list ( def. )

Example Sentences

Shortstop Xander Bogaerts is on the injured list with a fracture in his left foot.

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Over the next six years, he endured five more injured list stints for back-related ailments.

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Reliever Michael Kopech, who has spent most of the season on the injured list with knee and shoulder issues, will accompany the team on its East Coast road trip and could be activated Tuesday.

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By mid-June, Betts was about a league-average shortstop but further progress was derailed by a broken hand that landed him on the injured list.

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Before their game in Minnesota, the team announced that shortstop Xander Bogaerts was going on the injured list with a foot fracture, which could keep him out for the rest of the regular season.

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