| 单词 | gopher ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgopher ball b. In form gopher. Baseball. Usually as gopher ball. A pitch that is or can be hit for a run, esp. a home run. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch change of pace1650 slow ball1838 passed ball1860 ball1863 rib roaster1864 called ball1865 low ball1866 wild pitch1867 curveball1875 short pitch1877 grass cutter1879 fastball1883 downshoot1886 lob ball1888 pitchout1903 bean ballc1905 spitball1905 screwball1908 spitter1908 sinker ball1910 fallaway1912 meatball1912 fireball1913 roundhouse1913 forkball1923 sinker1926 knuckle ball1927 knuckler1928 gofer1932 slider1936 sailer1937 junk1941 change up1942 eephus1943 junkball1944 split-finger(ed) fastball1980 change1982 1932 Baseball Mag. Oct. 496/3 When a pitcher ‘makes one too good’,..he throws a ‘gopher’. They hit it and ‘go fer’ two, three, or four satchels. 1962 Washington Daily News 1 June 63/2 Ralph Terry of the New York Yankees and Phil Regan of the Detroit Tigers are running head and head today for the unwanted gopher ball championship of the major leagues. 1968 R. Coover Universal Baseball Assoc. v. 148 Partridge was throwing gopher balls and his..teammates were fielding like a bunch of bush-leaguers. 1986 Internat. Herald Tribune 22 Sept. 5/5 Any informed student of the game knows that no pitcher wants to go down in the record books as having been the pitcher who served up a record-breaking gopher ball. < as lemmas |
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