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