Comes across English baseball team outside (5)
I believe the answer is:
meets
'comes across' is the definition.
('meet' can be a synonym of 'come across')
'english baseball team outside' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'baseball team' becomes 'mets' (New York Mets).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go outside others).
'e' inserted within 'mets' is 'MEETS'.
(Other definitions for meets that I've seen before include "Comes across" , "Effectively copes with" , "Hunts" , "Joins with" , "Encounters or suffices" .)