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Thanks, guys. Yes, of course- it's simply he low "in the mouth".
SB and ER are used in baseball stats, so "back" is indeed just a reversal indicator.

In ? the mouth, mmm !

Thanks, Aristo.

Don't follow sports, so wasn't familiar with those, but have learned a number of cricket terms from cryptics & of course, Chambers.

Finally got round to doing this after 3 days of (fairly) wild camping (I came home at night, the others didn't).
Very enjoyable, thanks syzygy, though I'd never heard of a letter bank and would never have got 1 ac without the help on the "comments".
I also had never seen traveing used as an anagrind before, though apparently Emily and Henry have often done so. Clever clue, 7 dn.

I can't get the missing letters (2 and 7) for 11 dn but not worried. Tried googling.
I thought it was a very nice puzzle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Santana

Thank you Mr A
all done now