short-stop

verb2

1. •
   To stop (a process, trip, trajectory, etc.) before it complete; to cause to stop short.

   • Davis says Florida often gets "short-stopped” when an airline carrying a company site selector from California stops in Houston or Dallas or Austin. — 1983
2. •
   To play the position of shortstop.

   • I have never known her to follow with any degree of avidity the fortunes of the Kansas City Monarchs, for whom Robinson short-stopped last season. — 1979