Examples of grounder in a Sentence
He hit a grounder to the shortstop.
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Mookie Betts tapped a spinning grounder toward the first baseman Anthony Rizzo that Rizzo hesitated to charge.
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Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
With two outs and the bases loaded in the top of the fifth, Cole failed to cover first base on a Mookie Betts grounder to first baseman Anthony Rizzo.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Mookie Betts hits a soft grounder to Anthony Rizzo, who’s recovering from two broken fingers and hasn’t hit a homer in over four and a half months.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The error put two on with no outs for Will Smith, who chopped a grounder to the shortstop hole that Anthony Volpe fielded cleanly.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
With two outs and the bases loaded in the top of the fifth, Cole failed to cover first base on a Mookie Betts grounder to first baseman Anthony Rizzo.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Nov. 2024
Mookie Betts hits a soft grounder to Anthony Rizzo, who’s recovering from two broken fingers and hasn’t hit a homer in over four and a half months.
—Tony Blengino, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
The error put two on with no outs for Will Smith, who chopped a grounder to the shortstop hole that Anthony Volpe fielded cleanly.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Grounder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grounder. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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grounder
noun
ground·er
ˈgrau̇n-dər 
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