How to Use lefty in a Sentence

lefty

noun

• Our starting pitcher is a lefty.
• Judge is 2 for 4 with no homers against the crafty lefty.
  — Andrew Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
• The 6-foot-4 lefty is already throwing in the low-to-mid 90s.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 10 July 2022
• The lithe lefty is a stand-up guy, credit him for that.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
• Moore first met Prager when the young lefty was still in sixth grade.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2021
• Windler plays pool lefty and kicks a ball with his left foot.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 10 July 2019
• Hall, a lefty, worked out of Blaine Hardy’s jam in the ninth inning.
  — Chris Nelsen, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2019
• The sweet-swinging lefty is in line to be among the first picks in this year’s MLB draft.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Apr. 2023
• For lefties on both sides of the Atlantic, this is part of the plan.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• There, the lefty is … well, very efficient around the rim.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 July 2022
• Good news for the Tigers: No team has hit worse against lefties than the Guardians.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2023
• With a lefty on the mound, Nick Senzel would be a lock to be in the lineup.
  — John Fay, The Enquirer, 29 Sep. 2020
• The lefty didn’t touch his cutter over the course of 95 pitches.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
• Joey Votto, the one lefty in the lineup, struck out three times.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2021
• The lefty is back in the majors with his hometown M’s, with a shot at the playoffs.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 5 Sep. 2022
• The lefty walked one and struck out seven, including two in the first and the side in the seventh.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
• The lefty was optioned to Triple-A Durham on August 30.
  — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• Joey Gallo is one of the few Rangers who wears the flap against lefties.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2020
• The lefty struck out in the fifth, but displayed his recent power drive in the eighth.
  — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• The culprits, again, are the two big lefty bats in the lineup, Harper and Schwarber.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2023
• The Rangers went 26-32 in games when the opponent started a lefty.
  — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
• The list of lefties who can launch baseballs there is brief.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 22 Oct. 2019
• Their height, along with the fact that Bourque is right-handed and Avery is a lefty.
  — Rick Armstrong, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2021
• The sluggers combined to go 0-for-4 with three strikeouts against the lefty.
  — Ryan Kolakowski, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2019
• The Sox sitting him sometimes when a lefty was on the mound didn’t help either.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• Sean Doolittle is the only other lefty in the team’s bullpen.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 5 May 2021
• In his next at-bat against the 27-year-old lefty, Renfroe sent a shot into the Red Sox bullpen.
  — Ken Powtak, Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
• Watson, the other notable lefty in the field, did his best.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2021
• Musk’s alliance with the far right has torched Tesla’s brand in the eyes of what used to be the carmaker’s base: upwardly mobile eco-conscious lefties from the coasts.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
• With this deep mediocre array of right-handers, the O’s faithful will have to watch for incoming projectiles from lefty pull hitters.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2025