strike zone

noun

: the area over home plate through which a pitched baseball must pass to be called a strike

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Musicals aren’t necessarily in Burton’s strike zone: There’s an urgency and naked earnestness to them, a plain eagerness to please, that doesn’t come naturally to Burton. Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024 Game 3 —The home-plate umpire has a generous strike zone tonight. Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024 Playoff baseball riles up fan bases from coast to coast with questionable strike zones and infuriating manager decisions. Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019 The league has spent years testing its Automated Ball-Strike system — an electronic strike zone that uses pitch tracking technology to determine whether a pitch is a ball or a strike — and since last season two versions of the system have been tested at the Triple-A level. Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for strike zone 

Word History

First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of strike zone was in 1911

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“Strike zone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strike%20zone. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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strike zone

noun
: the area (as from the armpits to the tops of the knees of a batter) over home plate through which a baseball pitch must pass to be called a strike

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