expression
at bat
Baseball term for a player's turn to bat. Used in phrases like アットバットに立つ (step up to bat).
彼はアットバットでヒットを打った。
He got a hit in his at bat.
次のアットバットで逆転を狙う。
They aim to turn the game around in the next at bat.
Variant with a middle dot, sometimes seen in dictionaries or older texts.
打席 is the standard Japanese term for 'at bat' or 'plate appearance', while アットバット is a direct loanword used mainly in baseball contexts.
Loanword from English 'at bat', used in baseball.