dinger

noun

ding·er ˈdiŋ-ər

plural dingers

baseball, informal

: home run sense 1

Only the Royals, Astros and Cubs have given up more dingers than the Angels.—

Stephen Cannella

Ramirez had driven in 72 runs and had scored himself 49 times, while smacking 16 dingers …—

David Sabino

Examples of dinger in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Edman nearly had his second two-run dinger in the fourth, flying out to deep center. —

Dan Freedman, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 Every game would essentially be mirror matches of the same two players hitting dingers over the fence. —

Ash Parrish, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2024 In the 2024 Home Run Derby final, Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was just one dinger away from tying slugger Teoscar Hernández. —

Jeff Fedotin, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 That gave Blackmon 800 career RBIs as well as 227 career homers, pulling him into a tie with Carlos Gonzalez for fifth in dingers in club history. —

Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dinger

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