How to Use grand slam in a Sentence
grand slam
noun- He made a grand slam.
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Duarte came in to give up the grand slam to Jose Ramirez.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2022 -
In Tempe, Trout hit his first homer of the spring, a grand slam.
— Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 6 Mar. 2024 -
His grand slam put the Twins ahead, 5-2, with no outs in the sixth inning.
— Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 16 Aug. 2023 -
The grand slam narrowed the Taylor North deficit to 5-4.
— Brett Crossley, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2021 -
Off the bat, Schwindel appeared to hit a two-out, go-ahead grand slam.
— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2022 -
The ball traveled 381 feet and over the wall in right-center field for a grand slam.
— Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2023 -
Would the porches and arched windows have been a grand slam?
— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2022 -
The 14-year-old freshman at Olathe East hit her first grand slam in the fall.
— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024 -
The walkoff grand slam was just the start to the best stretch of Reyes’s major league career so far.
— Greg McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023 -
Gonzalez’s homer was a grand slam with no outs in the fifth to make it 15-0.
— Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2024 -
Martinez hit a grand slam to put the Mets ahead of the Halos in the top of the seventh, but the lead was brief.
— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024 -
His 17th homer of the season was also his third grand slam.
— Dallas News, 3 June 2022 -
Rafi, not trying to do too much and hitting the grand slam and so on and so on.
— BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2021 -
Hoskins also hit a grand slam against the Braves on opening day in 2019.
— Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2024 -
The left fielder hit a solo homer in the second, a grand slam in the third and a two-run shot in the ninth.
— Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2021 -
Mullins drove a 1-2 slider out of the park for his second grand slam of the season and the team’s sixth.
— Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Aaron Judge rounds the bases after hitting a grand slam against the Red Sox.
— Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2024 -
On Tuesday night, Farmer was a few feet away from a walk-off grand slam.
— Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2022 -
Thomas Watson hit a grand slam in the sweep of Tuscaloosa County last week.
— al, 5 May 2022 -
The next ball the Dodgers put in play was an opposite-field grand slam by Muncy.
— Bill Plunkett, Orange County Register, 7 May 2024 -
Meadows slapped a grand slam, going 2-for-3 at the plate.
— al, 22 Mar. 2022 -
In his three-homer game, Northcut hit a grand slam in the 1st inning, a three-run homer in the 2nd and a solo shot in the 6th.
— Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 12 June 2022 -
Mark Vientos, the next man up, responded with a grand slam to blow open the game.
— Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 15 Oct. 2024 -
Djokovic is in Melbourne to play at the Australian Open, the first grand slam tournament of the year.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Jan. 2022 -
The ninth home run of the season for Muncy was also his sixth career grand slam.
— Miami Herald, 8 May 2024 -
One of them was a big hit — Jonah Heim’s fourth-inning grand slam.
— Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023 -
The drive would have been a grand slam a year ago, before the fence in left at Camden Yards was moved back 26 1/2 feet.
— David Ginsburg, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2022 -
The Dodgers have so far dominated the series after Freeman’s epic walk-off grand slam in Game 1.
— Wayne Sterling, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024 -
Of course, the story wouldn’t be complete without finding out what happened to Freeman’s grand slam ball.
— Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2024
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