play ball vs sync

play ball

verb
  • To work together; to cooperate. 

  • An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball or softball. 

  • To start anything tumultuous. 

sync

verb
  • To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. 

  • To flush all pending I/O operations to disk. 

noun
  • A music synchronization license, allowing the music to be synchronized with visual media such as films. 

  • Harmony. 

How often have the words play ball and sync occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )