grounder
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈɡraʊndər/
- Jargon
:
batazo por el suelo
- Two innings later, Travis Fryman hit a hard grounder down the third-base line.
- hit grounders
- fielding grounders
- scooping up grounders
Examples
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Segura fielded the routine grounder, but Hart did not catch Weeks' throw.
Blog text (24) -
Saunders swung and missed, took a ball, and then pulled a grounder to first.
Blog text (28) -
A grounder to second base for the third out!
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A short grounder to second base.
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Pitch, slow grounder to the right side.
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By the third week, he was able to stop most grounders, usually with his body if not with his glove.
Fiction book (1997) -
Ryan made the play on Keppinger's grounder and preserved the day.
Blog text (11) -
Tim Lincecum retired Castro on a grounder to third for the first out in the seventh.
Blog text (6) -
Ryan Zimmerman fielded a sharp grounder to third by Brett Hayes, but could do nothing with it.
Blog text (18) -
In the seventh inning, Sanders hit a grounder that could have been a double play.
Synonyms
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3.4
In baseball, a ball hit so it rolls or bounces on the ground
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8.1
A baseball hit that bounces along the ground before being fielded
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3.6
A baseball hit that rolls or bounces along the ground
Antonyms
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grounder comes from the common word ground, meaning 'earth' or 'ground', and the ending -er, which makes a word mean 'one that'. In baseball, a grounder is a hit that travels along the ground instead of in the air, so it is literally 'one that goes on the ground'.