| 100% | BENCHJOHNNY | 11 | Make a baseball player sit out the game? |
| 50% | PINE | 4 | Ride the ___ (sit out a baseball game) |
| 49% | WARMINGTHEBENCH | 15 | Sitting out the game |
| 48% | BENCHING | 8 | Taking out for the rest of the game, like a baseball player |
| 45% | REST | 4 | Sit out a game |
| 44% | BABE | 4 | ___ Ruth, former baseball player who once said, "Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game" |
| 43% | SCORES | 6 | Makes a point during the game |
| 42% | OPEN | 4 | Make the first bid in a bridge game |
| 41% | ALLSTAR | 7 | Baseball player who participates in a special midseason game: Hyph. |
| 41% | OPPONENT | 8 | The other player in a two-person game |
| 41% | HOMERUN | 7 | Like a baseball hit out of the park |
| 41% | ADAPT | 5 | Make a movie out of a book, game, or toy franchise |
| 40% | RYAN | 4 | First baseball player to make $1 million a year |
| 40% | KNEEL | 5 | Run out the clock in a football game, maybe |
| 40% | OPENS | 5 | Makes the first move in a game |
| 40% | TEJADA | 6 | Baseball player who was the 2005 All-Star Game MVP |
| 40% | CASEY | 5 | "Mighty" baseball player who struck out, in a classic poem |
| 40% | BAT | 3 | Item a baseball player takes into the on-deck circle |
| 40% | TIE | 3 | Why a baseball game would go into the 10th inning |
| 39% | DEALER | 6 | Player who dishes out cards in a poker game |
| 39% | OPEN | 4 | Make the first bid in a game of bridge |
| 39% | CALYX | 5 | Outer whorl of a flower made of the sepals |
| 39% | NAT | 3 | Baseball player whose stadium is a few miles from the White House, for short |
| 39% | WADE | 4 | ___ Boggs, baseball player who made a guest appearance on "Cheers" as himself |
| 39% | CHARADES | 8 | A game where you act out a word to players |
| 38% | FIELDOFDREAMS | 13 | 1989 film featuring Burt Lancaster as a baseball player whose ghost plays one last game: 3 wds. |
| 38% | FINALIST | 8 | Player who makes it to the last round of a contest |
| 38% | EJECT | 5 | Button to push a CD out of the player |
| 38% | SURVIVES | 8 | Makes it out the other side of a disaster |
| 38% | DEAL | 4 | *Pass out the cards ... or a word made by changing one letter of 25a |