How to Use baseball in a Sentence
baseball
noun- We watched baseball on TV last night.
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But, in baseball, that hasn’t seemed to be the case the last number of years.
— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024 -
Like the best baseball player in the world hits the ball three out of 10 times.
— Mitchell Kuga, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2024 -
Officials say the hard ball — roughly the size of a baseball — hit the child on the back of the head.
— Adam Sabes, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2023 -
In baseball terms, one is high and tight, the other low and wide.
— Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 -
But the 12-year-old has plenty of baseball to play first.
— Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023 -
He was taken by the Phillies in the Rule 5 draft and cleared by the Navy to pursue baseball this spring.
— Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Clyde Berry Field is the home field of the Henderson baseball team.
— Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 1 Nov. 2023 -
For the Orioles, that 2018 season was the first of four straight as one of baseball’s five worst teams.
— Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2023 -
Is the romance of baseball in New York coming to an end?
— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 -
Does the Daily News know that there are two baseball teams in New York?
— Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 22 July 2024 -
How far can a 12-year-old baseball player hit a home run?
— Lola Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023 -
There isn’t a prospect in all of baseball who can match De La Cruz’s size, speed and power.
— Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 4 Mar. 2023 -
This was truly vintage baseball, played by rules that go back to the 1850s.
— Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2023 -
This isn’t about the Padres so much as the Dodgers, about their juvenile flock, about baseball.
— Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022 -
In baseball it’s Shohei Ohtani, with his ability to both pitch and hit like he was born on the field.
— Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022 -
The uniqueness of playing in a baseball park, the home of the Padres, provides another hook.
— Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023 -
The baseball icon Roberto Clemente’s name graces a downtown bridge.
— Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024 -
There’s something about the nine-year-old brain, and there’s something about baseball.
— Megan Angelo, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2023 -
The Tigers, the sixth-worst team in baseball last season, moved up three spots from their pre-lottery odds.
— Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2022 -
The baseballs were wrapped in reflective tape for the same reason.
— Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2024 -
On Monday, the baseball team announced Antwon had died and paid tribute to him.
— Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2024 -
And so a lot of our time spent off the baseball field and outside of school would be watching films, quoting films.
— Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Mookie Betts said of the notion the Dodgers were baseball’s new Evil Empire.
— Fabian Ardaya, The Athletic, 2 Feb. 2025 -
Normally, a hot dog is the perfect bite at a baseball game.
— Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023 -
The mob chased, threatened and beat the protestors with ax handles and baseball bats.
— Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 29 Aug. 2023 -
In one instance, footage shows McKinstry throwing a baseball at the child’s back twice and in her face.
— Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 8 Dec. 2024 -
Old baseball heads will recall Wood was the ace knuckleballer for the Chicago White Sox in the 1970s.
— Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 12 Feb. 2025 -
And remember, nothing in baseball lasts forever — except for the players union’s resistance to a salary cap.
— Paul Sullivan, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025 -
For good measure, the Mavericks have also incorporated a belt and a baseball bat into the festivities.
— Grace Raynor, The Athletic, 13 Feb. 2025
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