NOUN
- (baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike
How To Use strike zone In A Sentence
- Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft. Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
- Lugo projects to have good at-bats against left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales because Lugo is a good high ball hitter and Morales tends to make most of his mistakes up in the strike zone. Scout's take: Boston Red Sox lineup analysis
- You're taught, in fact, to call a rulebook strike zone and that the runner has to beat the ball to the bag in order to be called safe. Undefined
- But courtesy and confirmation Kabuki prevented her from outright discrediting Roberts 'claim that the strike zone of the rulebook is the same as the strike zone of live play. Eric Liu: The Real Meaning of Balls and Strikes
- Shrinking ballparks, postage-stamp strike zones, rocket-fueled baseballs and laboratory-powered hitters are just a few factors.
- He expects to profit from the high strike mostly when he throws his overhand curve which breaks late into the strike zone.
- Knowing doesn't help you when you swing at something five feet out of the strike zone.
- As players were getting bigger, ballparks and strike zones were getting smaller, bats and baseballs were getting harder and the quality of pitching was declining.
- Suppan sports a 5.34 ERA and has been hanging his fastballs and off-speed stuff in the strike zone.
- The final pitch of the night was perfectly in the strike zone and perfectly gloved by the catcher.
