⚾

Baseball Emoji ⚾

A white hardball with red laced stitching, seams curving around it exactly the way a real one's do. Little league games, opening day, and MLB playoff runs all reach for it, and it lends itself to idioms too: a curveball, stepping up to the plate, taking a full swing at something.

What ⚾ means

A white ball with two inwardly curving lines stitched in red such that the stitches are seen as short red lines. The ⚾ Baseball emoji represents the game, literally, and attributes such as focus, eye-hand coordination, team works, and speed, most of all, metaphorically.

How and when to use it

Baseball and idioms are pretty much the same things. ⚾ would come in handy for any baseball idiom you're throwing into a conversation.
If you're texting someone about an unexpected event, conversation, or a surprise, indeed, you could use ⚾. For instance, "I really had a curveball coming my way and I didn't even notice ⚾".
Use ⚾ while sharing that awesome news about how a close friend succeeded at something or about how you finally made it! - "After all these years, she's finally done it! Earned herself a home run ⚾".
If you're being the classic know-it-all or you're telling someone that they are one, use ⚾. For example, "Of course you knew it all right off the bat, mate⚾. You're practically the bat, right?!".
If you're feeling sorry for someone or something, and you're texting a close friend or typing out a quote/caption resonating with the same, you could use ⚾. Like, "It's painful when you strikeout each time you try, you know ⚾".

Other Names

⚾ Baseball Game
⚾ Softball
⚾ Cricket (not exactly, but works)
⚾ Ball With Red Lines
⚾ Hardball
⚾ Fastball
⚾ Fly Ball

The lowdown

Category: Activities › sport
Codepoints: U+26BE
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :baseball:
Keywords: ball, baseball, sport

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.