Walk-off

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  walk-off \walk"-off`\, a. (Baseball)
     Game-ending and game-winning; such as to end the game
     immediately, and allow the players to walk off the field; --
     of hits, especially home runs, which occur in the last half
     of the ninth or a later inning, which put the home team ahead
     of the visiting team and thereby end the game immediatey.


     This occurs in baseball because, when the last half of the
     ninth inning arrives, if the home team (which bats last) is
     already ahead in the score the last half of that inning is
     not played, the winner of the game having already been
     decided. Likewise, as soon as the home team gets ahead in the
     score after the visiting team has batted in the ninth inning,
     the game is ended. [Baseball jargon]
     [PJC]
  
           Curtis's homer over the left-center-field fence beat
           the Braves and was the first walk-off homer by a Yankee
           in the World Series since Mickey Mantle slugged one
           against the St. Louis Cardinals in game 3 in 1964.
                                                    --Jack Curry
                                                    (New York
                                                    Times, Oct.
                                                    28, 1999 p.
                                                    D4)
     [PJC]
  
           There are so many people in here who are happy for
           Chad. We know what he's been through. Those hits could
           make Chad Curtis's whole year. When you hit a walk-off
           homer in the World Series, that's something he's going
           to remember for a long time.             --Paul O'Neill
                                                    (the Yankee
                                                    outfielder,
                                                    quoted by Jack
                                                    Curry in the
                                                    New York
                                                    Times, Oct.
                                                    27, 1999 p.
                                                    D4)
     [PJC]