How to Use designated hitter in a Sentence

designated hitter

noun

• The Rangers designated hitter lined the 91-mph pitch over the left-field wall for a homer and a 2-1 lead.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• The White Sox designated hitter opened 8 for 8 and hasn’t cooled much since.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 10 Apr. 2021
• Many of them are baseball fans, and all of them are fans of the longtime Sox designated hitter, said Ynoa, 53.
  — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• Braydon Webb will start in left field and lead off, and designated hitter Matt Goodheart will drop to the six hole.
  — Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2021
• Kwan even rifled a throw to second base that beat Mariners designated hitter Mitch Haniger to the bag in the bottom of the ninth as Haniger looked to stretch for a double.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2022
• Orioles designated hitter Ryan O’Hearn singled up the middle to start the ninth, but Holmes clamped down for his 10th save of the season.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2024
• Sox designated hitter Yasmani Grandal, who has been on a tear, hit a solo home run in the bottom of the inning.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2021
• This brought Twins designated hitter Ryan Jeffers to the plate.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
• Texas designated hitter Khris Davis, acquired from the A’s last month, will be sidelined for at least three weeks because of a quad strain.
  — Chronicle News Services, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
• The Chicago White Sox designated hitter hit a long fly to right-center.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
• The Brewers designated hitter has not reached base in his last 28 plate appearances and had just five hits in 44 at-bats during the trip.
  — Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2022
• That will move Jesse Winker to designated hitter against right-handed pitchers and fill the at-bats from VanMeter.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2020
• On Wednesday, Stephenson served as the Reds’ designated hitter for the first time this season.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
• Turner made 11 starts as the Dodgers’ designated hitter this year.
  — Jorge Castillo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
• Dodgers designated hitter Joc Pederson struck the big blow with a three-run homer later in the inning.
  — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 28 Oct. 2017
• Gutierrez got a fly out, and then designated hitter Tommy La Stella whiffed at a slider in the dirt.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 28 May 2022
• Colombia designated hitter Alfaro of the San Diego Padres had two doubles and scored three runs.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• Reds designated hitter Mike Moustakas followed Pham at the plate, and Moustakas was up with the bases loaded.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 18 May 2022
• His big body, like that of Pujols, is breaking down, but there will always be at-bats at designated hitter for each.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 5 Apr. 2018
• After Twins designated hitter Nelson Cruz homered to center in the third for the game’s first run, García led off the fifth with a double.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2021
• Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani had one hit, a single, in four at-bats.
  — Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• The only Seattle player to reach base was designated hitter Omar Narvaez, who walked with one out in the fifth inning.
  — Joe Reedy, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2019
• That marked his first game in the field in five weeks with a hamstring injury limiting him to designated hitter duties.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2022
• Arkansas designated hitter Kendall Diggs, the hero of last night's game with his three-run home run in the ninth inning, is back in the lineup today.
  — Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2022
• Two players who struggled the most down the stretch — center fielder Trent Grisham and designated hitter Josh Bell — are heating up at the right time.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
• But White Sox designated hitter Andrew Vaughn delivered a go-ahead solo home run in the ninth.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
• With a flailing swing, the Marlins designated hitter sent a two-hopper whizzing past Pepiot — who stabbed for a ball that was just out of his reach — and up the middle for a single.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• But with one out in the final inning, Twins designated hitter Brent Rooker broke it up, slicing a first-pitch slider the other way for a double down the right-field line.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2021
• Since hearing designated hitter Miguel Cabrera's plea to return to first base, Avila has thought about giving him a chance.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2020
• Blue Jays designated hitter Corey Dickerson hit a solo home run in the seventh.
  — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024