How to Use baseball in a Sentence
baseball
noun- We watched baseball on TV last night.
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But, in baseball, that hasn’t seemed to be the case the last number of years.
— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024 -
Like the best baseball player in the world hits the ball three out of 10 times.
— Mitchell Kuga, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2024 -
Officials say the hard ball — roughly the size of a baseball — hit the child on the back of the head.
— Adam Sabes, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2023 -
In baseball terms, one is high and tight, the other low and wide.
— Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 -
But the 12-year-old has plenty of baseball to play first.
— Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023 -
He was taken by the Phillies in the Rule 5 draft and cleared by the Navy to pursue baseball this spring.
— Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Clyde Berry Field is the home field of the Henderson baseball team.
— Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023 -
For the Orioles, that 2018 season was the first of four straight as one of baseball’s five worst teams.
— Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Is the romance of baseball in New York coming to an end?
— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 -
Does the Daily News know that there are two baseball teams in New York?
— Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024 -
How far can a 12-year-old baseball player hit a home run?
— Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023 -
There isn’t a prospect in all of baseball who can match De La Cruz’s size, speed and power.
— Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2023 -
This was truly vintage baseball, played by rules that go back to the 1850s.
— Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2023 -
The uniqueness of playing in a baseball park, the home of the Padres, provides another hook.
— Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023 -
The baseball icon Roberto Clemente’s name graces a downtown bridge.
— Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 -
There’s something about the nine-year-old brain, and there’s something about baseball.
— Megan Angelo, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2023 -
The baseballs were wrapped in reflective tape for the same reason.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024 -
On Monday, the baseball team announced Antwon had died and paid tribute to him.
— Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024 -
And so a lot of our time spent off the baseball field and outside of school would be watching films, quoting films.
— Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Normally, a hot dog is the perfect bite at a baseball game.
— Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023 -
The mob chased, threatened and beat the protestors with ax handles and baseball bats.
— Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 29 Aug. 2023 -
The Dodgers and Los Angeles are going to be the epicenter of sports and baseball for the summer.
— Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024 -
But baseball is a crazy game and at best unpredictable.
— Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2024 -
Alcantara overpowered the Reds for most of the game, but Fraley’s home run kept the Reds in the game against one of the best starters in baseball.
— Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 13 May 2023 -
But Payson did share one trait with the American working class: a love of baseball.
— Nick Hirshon, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2024 -
There were stories about Kent being -- oh, man -- killed with a baseball bat.
— Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 31 May 2023 -
For the first eight games of the season, baseball’s unicorn had been strangely muted.
— Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 4 Apr. 2024 -
This ain’t baseball, folks: Nobody has ever come close, to the point that nobody even talks about this.
— John Hollinger, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024 -
There are few, if any, closers in baseball who can toss up zeros better than Bautista.
— Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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