Sentence:  There was no heroic ending &mdash; Toronto's Joey Votto coming up a triple shy of hitting for the cycle, and some brilliantly executed <WSD>smallball</WSD> saw to that &mdash; as the visitors claimed victory to avoid being swept in the three-game series. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A style of play that scores a large number of runs, one base at a time.