How to Use baseball in a Sentence

baseball

noun
  • We watched baseball on TV last night.
  • 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
  • Only those candidates are ideally placed to reignite America’s love for wiener dogs that were once as ubiquitous as baseball and apple pie.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2023
  • One of the themes when Omar Minaya spoke about his new posting as a senior advisor to baseball operations was balance.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Brewer's last game as coach was 2-1 loss to Northwest Chrsitian last May in the 3A baseball final.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Whereas most officers catch less than a handful of misconduct complaints in their entire careers, Mabanag collected them like baseball cards.
    Ali Winston, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2023
  • For most of Andrew Friedman’s tenure as the club’s president of baseball operations, this is how the Dodgers have operated.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • The Dodgers and Los Angeles are going to be the epicenter of sports and baseball for the summer.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • This ain’t baseball, folks: Nobody has ever come close, to the point that nobody even talks about this.
    John Hollinger, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024

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