| 单词 | bad ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbad ball bad ball n. Baseball a ball pitched outside the strike zone; frequently attributive, esp. in bad-ball hitter. ΚΠ 1902 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 4 Oct. 7/4 On the inside he has a good eye, and is rarely fooled into biting at bad balls, but he went to bat seventeen consecutive times and failed to make a hit. 1922 Los Angeles Times 22 Apr. iii. 2/5 Some men are natural bad-ball hitters, and many great batters have turned a lot of near-wild pitches into base hits. 1933 W. Winchell in Havana Evening Telegram 3 May 2/2 Fishing trip, taking a swing at a bad ball. 1990 D. DiMaggio & B. Gilbert Real Grass, Real Heroes xii. 159 [He] had a .318 average for the Dodgers that year as one of baseball's best bad-ball hitters. 2007 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 3 Oct. d12 Three Angels ranked in the top 15 when it came to ‘bad-ball hitting’—..[they] all batted over .230 on pitches out of the strike zone. < as lemmas |
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