base hitnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbeɪs ˌhɪt//ˈbeɪs ˌhɪt/(in baseball) a play in which a player hits the ball and successfully reaches first base
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Examples from literature
- A steal is made when a base-runner gets from one base to another without the assistance of a base hit or an error.
- Another base hit would have won for New York, but Meyers perished on a hard hit to Wagner, which was fielded to first ahead of the batter.
- His greatest fault was that he would not run out on a base hit, but on the contrary would walk to his base.
- In each of the last two games he made a base hit and a run.
- Should he make more than one base hit, the player on the base advances as many bases as the batter has made.