Examples of double play in a Sentence
The batter hit into a double play.
They turned a double play to end the inning.
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Justin Wilson drew an inning-ending double play, impressively turned by David Hamilton at second, to shut down the Texas rally in the fifth.
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2025
The Padres also turned a double play in the first inning after Vásquez walked the first two batters of the game.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
When Oracle Park’s jumbotron broadcasts a montage of Crawford’s career highlights, the shortstop’s crowd-silencing grand slam against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the 2014 Wild Card Game and iconic double play with Joe Panik in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series will be front and center.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Pete Crow-Armstrong found the barrel to hit a rocket to shortstop Miguel Rojas, who flagged it down and fired it to Edman at second for an inning-saving double play.
—Jay Paris, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2025
The Padres also turned a double play in the first inning after Vásquez walked the first two batters of the game.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
When Oracle Park’s jumbotron broadcasts a montage of Crawford’s career highlights, the shortstop’s crowd-silencing grand slam against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the 2014 Wild Card Game and iconic double play with Joe Panik in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series will be front and center.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Pete Crow-Armstrong found the barrel to hit a rocket to shortstop Miguel Rojas, who flagged it down and fired it to Edman at second for an inning-saving double play.
—Jay Paris, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Double play.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20play. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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