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.

Recent Examples on the Web

Two batters later, junior captain AJ Corrado hit a hard ground ball that took a bounce over the third baseman’s glove, Chance sprinted home and touched home plate to clinch St. Paul’s fourth state title, the final score 5-4. —Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025

With the score tied in the sixth, Freddie Freeman beat out an infield single on a ground ball that caromed off Padres reliever Adrian Morejon. —Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 11 June 2025

Hannah Yaeger went 2 for 3 while knocking in two runs for the Raiders, who loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh, only to have Byron pitcher Natalia Behrens induce a ground ball to get out of the jam. —Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 5 June 2025

Vientos ran out of the box on a ground ball in the top of the 10th inning in the Mets’ 4-3 extra-inning win, collapsing almost immediately. —Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for ground ball

• aldol
• armhole
• atoll
• awol
• backhaul
• banal
• baseball
• befall
• cabal
• catchall
• cecal
• centrale

Kids Definition

ground ball

noun

: a batted baseball that rolls or bounces along the ground