plural dingers
baseball, informal
: home run sense 1
Only the Royals, Astros and Cubs have given up more dingers than the Angels.—
Stephen Cannella
Stephen CannellaRamirez had driven in 72 runs and had scored himself 49 times, while smacking 16 dingers …—David Sabino
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Roberts did it again about ten days later, and Edman rewarded him with two dingers.
—Dan Freedman, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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
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Dan Freedman, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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
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“Dinger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinger. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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