ground ball

noun

: a batted baseball that bounds or rolls along the ground

Examples of ground ball in a Sentence

He hit a ground ball to the shortstop.

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The interest stems from things like a 58.6 percent ground ball rate, a changeup that has held hitter to a .172 average in the past two seasons and is a pitch that has been exclusively used in outings like the 18 thrown in Game 4 of the ALCS for the save as part of a run of 61 straight changeups. —

Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025 Baseball Savant shows one of Quintana's best attributes is his ground ball rate. —

Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025 Fried ranks near the top of the league in average exit velocity allowed as well as ground ball rate. —

Ryan Morik, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024 Randle was playing third base for the Seattle Mariners on May 27, 1981, at the Kingdome in Seattle, when Amos Otis of the Kansas City Royals tapped a ground ball that trickled toward third. —

Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for ground ball