(Baseball) a hit that travels along the ground.
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Examples for "hopper "
Examples for "hopper "
1 Now, of course, it was hopper headquarters for a whole upstate region.
2 When he goes back out to the common room, the blind record - hopper - Mr.
3 In this figure, A is the vibrating hopper for holding the earth.
4 The hopper would stand covering the nest until the young were hatched.
5 Bouncing along on your space hopper to Kylie and Jason, no doubt.
1 An exterior operation means the building is going to be a grounder .
2 Meanwhile, Jamie ran the Bobcat back and forth, bringing new grounder stones.
3 Now Carson came up with the stick, sending out a slow grounder .
4 Stahl rapped a grounder to Marquard, who threw Gardner out at third.
5 The new batsman, at the second offer, drove a slow grounder .
1 On the next pitch, Clemens retired Piazza on a groundball to second base.
2 But he had few walks and was an extreme groundball pitcher.
3 If someone hits a groundball off Mo it's going to be an 87-hopper somewhere.
4 Mussina induced a groundball to Jeter, who turned it into an inning-ending double play.
5 But the walks were still low and the groundball to flyball rate was so high.
1 Shefflin went down on his ankle as he contested a ground ball .
2 Then Healy slashed a ground ball to Hanley and nearly knocked him down.
3 Brewster batted a wicked ground ball to Blandy.
4 Harris finished with 13 disposals, four marks, four tackles -and for the record, four ground ball gets.
5 But Gregor Blanco hit a ground ball that third baseman Matt Carpenter muffed, allowing a second run to score.
6 If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball .
7 After several more pitches, the batter hit a ground ball to short and Henderson was easily thrown out at second.
8 It's a whole other dumb thing to do the same thing when you only hit a ground ball just past 2nd base.
9 He was on third base when a ground ball was fielded cleanly by the Braves and tossed to first for the second out.
10 At the end of the third quarter he saved a rasper and in the 33rd minute somehow got his left foot to a ground ball .
11 Most kids hit ground balls that barely left the infield or, worse yet, struck out.
12 He said to me, 'No ground balls .
13 The play went on, a terrible fusilade of wicked ground balls that baffled any attempt to field them.
14 And in our half, Bogart and Mullaney hit vicious ground balls that gave Treadwell and Wiler opportunities for superb plays.
15 To wear such gloves is making a travesty of skilful infield work in stopping hard hit, bounding or ground balls .
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