Examples of grounder in a Sentence
He hit a grounder to the shortstop.
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With two outs in the top of the third inning, Houck fielded a grounder from Harrison Bader and laid out to tag the first base bag just ahead of the runner to end the inning.
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
Shortstop Scott Kingery ranged to his right to make a nice backhand play on a grounder.
—Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2025
Brown was called up early in the season last year after Justin Steele went down trying to field a grounder on Opening Day.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Rojas showed good range at third base, moving to his left to field a Kris Bryant grounder and firing to first base for the final out of the first inning.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
Shortstop Scott Kingery ranged to his right to make a nice backhand play on a grounder.
—Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 27 Feb. 2025
Brown was called up early in the season last year after Justin Steele went down trying to field a grounder on Opening Day.
—Sahadev Sharma, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
Rojas showed good range at third base, moving to his left to field a Kris Bryant grounder and firing to first base for the final out of the first inning.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Grounder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grounder. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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grounder
noun
ground·er
ˈgrau̇n-dər 
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