no-room-at-the-inn

Noun

(baseball) A phrase used by play-by-play announcers to describe a situation in which an ineffective pitcher is pitching with the bases loaded.
The pitcher is struggling to throw strikes but there's no room at the inn.

Origin

From the Biblical stoy of the birth of Jesus (Luke 2).

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