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Groundball meaning
Alternative spelling of ground ball.
Example sentences (7)
He surrendered a career-worst 30 home runs despite only 12.8 percent of his fly balls leaving the yard, which is fortunate considering his groundball rate was a career-low 35.8 percent.
After that, the Astros threatened, with a Michael Brantley walk, a Yuli Gurriel slow groundball in the outfield, and another walk of Yordan Alvarez.
Below: Suter tags out a diving Alex Gordon on an infield groundball in the fifth inning.
But he posted a 3.17 ERA on the road and still had a 50 percent groundball rate overall (eighth best in the majors for pitchers with at least 130 innings) and struck out nearly a batter an inning.
By the time he sidestepped the jam, getting a double play groundball off the bat of Xander Bogaerts, Biagini had thrown 41 pitches in the inning.
Gardner, meanwhile, was the complete defensive package for Xaverian, always finding ways to shut down the opposition’s top scoring threat while being a groundball machine on faceoffs.
They were able to work their first base runner into scoring position and drive them in on a groundball error in the infield in the bottom of the first inning.