How to Use baseball in a Sentence

baseball

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  • We watched baseball on TV last night.
  • But baseball is a crazy game and at best unpredictable.
    Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 19 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Many people back home have started going to the ballparks and playing baseball because of what happened to me.
    Victoria Edel, People.com, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The same standards of baseball remain in place today, 166 years later.
    Fox News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The man Dylan Hernández got to know in the press box for years knew baseball and understood his value.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024

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