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dinger

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• Dodger dingers: The Dodgers have a 10-game winning streak.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
• Peña's dinger tied the game at three, once again quieting the home crowd in the Bronx.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 23 Oct. 2022
• Yes, the Bronx Bombers still hit a ton of dingers, but their offense is much more than that.
  — Matt Martell, SI.com, 21 July 2019
• The three-run home run – which scored Tyler Wade and Mike Trout – his second three-run dinger of the night, tied the score.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
• The big first baseman hit a two-run homer in the first inning and a three-run dinger in the third, both with two outs.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2019
• Bregman garnished his seventh dinger of the year with a bat flip and a skip.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• Palka’s first dinger, a two-run moonshot to center field, put the Sox on the board.
  — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 4 July 2018
• And in the grand scheme of things, 500 long balls over a dozen years isn’t a lot — just 1% of all dingers over that time period.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• But his connection to the city runs deeper than dingers and rings.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 10 June 2019
• How to get the Padres to quit hitting dingers: Allow batters to come up with men on base.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2019
• With his latest dinger, Stanton is on pace to hit 60.4 homers.
  — Andre C. Fernandez, miamiherald, 15 Aug. 2017
• Heck, their batboy slugged 48 dingers two years ago with the Goodlettsville, Tenn., Little League team.
  — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Apr. 2018
• Ramos, 24, had a strong showing in the first round of Tuesday’s home run derby with 17 dingers.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 July 2019
• There’s still a home run problem, though, as his 11 dingers are one short of the league lead (the Angels’ Andrew Heaney).
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2020
• Santana’s 13th dinger of the season gave Milwaukee a 3-2 lead at the time and was the fourth of five times the Brewers took the lead in the series.
  — Journal Sentinel, 30 July 2023
• The South used a home run of its own (Tristan Gray) to sneak back ahead in the seventh, but the North added its second dinger to lock the score at 2.
  — Randy McRoberts, The Aegis, 16 Aug. 2017
• And until Sunday, no Brewers' dinger has dinged the car.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 June 2019
• Her second dinger of the night, a two-run shot in the bottom of the fifth, finished off the Royals' 10-0 victory.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2022
• Santana fared better than Thome, hitting 13 dingers in the first round.
  — chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2019
• On Tuesday, in his first start, Bruce hit a double and two home runs — one of them a grand slam — and was a wind’s breath from a third dinger.
  — Marcus Hayes, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• Even with all those dingers, the Astros excelled at keeping runs off the board in one of the more hitter-friendly parks in the game.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• Seth Brown hit 38 home runs with the Las Vegas Aviators, but has yet to hit his first big-league dinger.
  — Shayna Rubin, The Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2019
• Susac’s solo shot over the bullpen in left in the third was almost identical to his subsequent dinger in the ninth.
  — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2022
• Of course, pulling these pieces off isn't as easy as packing a dinger and growing a Goose Gossage mustache.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 13 Mar. 2018
• The dinger marked Bregman's 13th playoff homer, the most of any third baseman in MLB history.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 20 Oct. 2022
• Stanton would add his 83rd RBI of the season two innings later with his 31st dinger.
  — Matthew Roberson, courant.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• None from Justin Bour, the Miami Marlins’ first baseman with 20 dingers of his own.
  — Tim Healey, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 July 2017
• Bogaerts, on a seven-game hitting streak, hit a pair of dingers last Thursday against the Yankees.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• His homer Thursday broke a 15-day streak without a dinger, a period filled with too many weak ground balls.
  — USA Today, 25 June 2021
• Christian Walker led off the second inning with a dinger.
  — Richard Morin, azcentral, 15 June 2019

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