Examples of ground ball in a Sentence
He hit a ground ball to the shortstop.
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Two batters later, junior captain AJ Corrado hit a hard ground ball that took a bounce over the third baseman’s glove, Chance sprinted home and touched home plate to clinch St. Paul’s fourth state title, the final score 5-4.
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Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
With the score tied in the sixth, Freddie Freeman beat out an infield single on a ground ball that caromed off Padres reliever Adrian Morejon.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 11 June 2025
Hannah Yaeger went 2 for 3 while knocking in two runs for the Raiders, who loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh, only to have Byron pitcher Natalia Behrens induce a ground ball to get out of the jam.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 5 June 2025
Vientos ran out of the box on a ground ball in the top of the 10th inning in the Mets’ 4-3 extra-inning win, collapsing almost immediately.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
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Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
With the score tied in the sixth, Freddie Freeman beat out an infield single on a ground ball that caromed off Padres reliever Adrian Morejon.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 11 June 2025
Hannah Yaeger went 2 for 3 while knocking in two runs for the Raiders, who loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh, only to have Byron pitcher Natalia Behrens induce a ground ball to get out of the jam.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 5 June 2025
Vientos ran out of the box on a ground ball in the top of the 10th inning in the Mets’ 4-3 extra-inning win, collapsing almost immediately.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 3 June 2025
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“Ground ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ground%20ball. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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