rundown

1. A point-by-point summary.
2. Baseball. A play in which a runner is trapped between bases and is pursued by fielders attempting to make the tag.

1. 1. In poor physical condition; weak or exhausted.
   2. Dirty and dilapidated: rundown housing projects.
2. Unwound and not running: a run-down watch.

In general: status report or summary.

Municipal bonds: summary of the amounts available and the prices on units in a Serial Bond that has not yet been completely sold to the public.

In sport and exercise, a decrease in performance caused by:

• factors outside sport which tend to drain the body of physical energy (such as lack of adequate sleep)
• excessive physical exercise (see overtraining)
• overstraining which may cause exercise-related injuries (see overuse injury)
• indisposition, due to psychological factors such as worry, or to transient physiological complaints such as fatigue, due to glycogen depletion.

See also adaptive energy; burn out; overtraining; and stress.

noun

A condensation of the essential or main points of something: recapitulation, run-through, sum, summary, summation, summing-up, wrap-up. Informal recap. See words.

adjective

1. Extremely tired: bleary, dead, drained, exhausted, fatigued, spent, tired out, wearied, weariful, weary, worn-down, worn-out. Informal beat, bushed, tuckered (out). Slang done in, fagged (out), pooped (out). Idioms: all in, ready to drop. See health/sickness, tired/fresh.
2. Falling to ruin: dilapidated, ramshackle, ruinous, tumbledown. See better/worse.
3. Showing signs of wear and tear or neglect: bedraggled, broken-down, decaying, decrepit, dilapidated, dingy, down-at-heel, faded, mangy, scrubby, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, tattered, tatty, threadbare. Informal tacky². Slang ratty. Idioms: all the worse for wear, gone topotseed, pastcurehope. See better/worse.

Definition: shabby, in bad shape
Antonyms: fresh, good, healthy, ok

A condition characterized by a decrease in physical performance. It may comprise four distinct causal and modal entities: physical fitness and form affected by factors outside the sport, such as lack of sleep, overtraining, overstraining, which may result in overuse injuries, and indisposition. See also overtraining syndrome, stress.

This article is about the situation in baseball. For the practice in Scientology, see Rundown (Scientology).

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A typical rundown situation in baseball showing a baserunner for the Texas Rangers as he attempts to evade the Chicago Cubs defense.

A rundown, also called a pickle, is a situation in the game of baseball that occurs when the baserunner is stranded between two bases and is in jeopardy. When the base runner attempts to advance to the next base, he is cut off by the defensive player who has a live ball and attempts to return to his previous base before being tagged out. As he is doing this, the defenseman throws the ball past the base runner to the previous base, forcing him to reverse directions again. This is repeated until the runner is put out or reaches a base safely. If the runner safely returns to his original base, the defense is not charged with an error. However, if the defense allows the runner to advance to the next base in order (e.g., second base to third base), then the defense is charged with an error.

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