whiff
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7.9
- noun
- /wɪf/
- Jargon
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- Aside from the whiff on Chris Ivory's second quarter touchdown run, the 26-year-old Iowa State product tackled well.
- whiff rate
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The combination of this pitch development to the point of having four pitches with a whiff/swing percentage above 20%, along with using his better swing-and-miss pitches later in the count, has contributed to his newfound success.
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The risk in swinging for the fences, of course, is a big heroic whiff.
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More walks than whiffs.
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To Matt's credit, he’s not often wrong, but given the stakes, that’s a pretty big whiff.
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Kershaw was similarly effective with his slider, throwing strikes on 26 of his 31 sliders for strikes, also with 9 whiffs.
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He also won the NL strikeout crown by one whiff over runner-up Clayton Kershaw.
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That strikeout rate, as well as his strikeout-to-walk ratio of 4.3, set records for knuckleballers, as did his league-leading 230 whiffs.
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Now he's tied for 47th in getting batters to chase, 45th in-zone contact, and tied for 46th in getting batters to whiff.
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Terrance recorded his third whiff in the game, striking out on a pitch that barely grazed the zone.
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During the match, the batter's final whiff ended his hopes for a hit, marking his third strikeout.
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3.9
An out after a batter fails to hit the ball three times in one turn at bat
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A flat fish with small horn-like bumps on its head that lives on sandy sea bottoms in warm Atlantic waters
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Etymology
Whiff in baseball names the strikeout where the batter swings and misses, from the same image of trying to hit only a 'whiff' of air and not the ball.