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strike zone
noun
: the area over home plate through which a pitched baseball must pass to be called a strike
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Musicals aren’t necessarily in Burton’s strike zone: There’s an urgency and naked earnestness to them, a plain eagerness to please, that doesn’t come naturally to Burton.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
Game 3 —The home-plate umpire has a generous strike zone tonight.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
Playoff baseball riles up fan bases from coast to coast with questionable strike zones and infuriating manager decisions.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
The league has spent years testing its Automated Ball-Strike system — an electronic strike zone that uses pitch tracking technology to determine whether a pitch is a ball or a strike — and since last season two versions of the system have been tested at the Triple-A level.
—Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 24 June 2024
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First Known Use
1911, in the meaning defined above
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“Strike zone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strike%20zone. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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strike zone
noun
: the area (as from the armpits to the tops of the knees of a batter) over home plate through which a baseball pitch must pass to be called a strike
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