How to Use designated hitter in a Sentence

designated hitter

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  • The Rangers designated hitter lined the 91-mph pitch over the left-field wall for a homer and a 2-1 lead.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
  • The White Sox designated hitter opened 8 for 8 and hasn’t cooled much since.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Many of them are baseball fans, and all of them are fans of the longtime Sox designated hitter, said Ynoa, 53.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
  • Braydon Webb will start in left field and lead off, and designated hitter Matt Goodheart will drop to the six hole.
    — Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 15 May 2021
  • Kwan even rifled a throw to second base that beat Mariners designated hitter Mitch Haniger to the bag in the bottom of the ninth as Haniger looked to stretch for a double.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Sox designated hitter Yasmani Grandal, who has been on a tear, hit a solo home run in the bottom of the inning.
    — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2021
  • This brought Twins designated hitter Ryan Jeffers to the plate.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Texas designated hitter Khris Davis, acquired from the A’s last month, will be sidelined for at least three weeks because of a quad strain.
    — Chronicle News Services, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The Chicago White Sox designated hitter hit a long fly to right-center.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The Brewers designated hitter has not reached base in his last 28 plate appearances and had just five hits in 44 at-bats during the trip.
    — Curt Hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2022
  • That will move Jesse Winker to designated hitter against right-handed pitchers and fill the at-bats from VanMeter.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 23 Aug. 2020
  • On Wednesday, Stephenson served as the Reds’ designated hitter for the first time this season.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 11 May 2022
  • Turner made 11 starts as the Dodgers’ designated hitter this year.
    — Jorge Castillo Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Dodgers designated hitter Joc Pederson struck the big blow with a three-run homer later in the inning.
    — Kevin Dotson, CNN, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Gutierrez got a fly out, and then designated hitter Tommy La Stella whiffed at a slider in the dirt.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 28 May 2022
  • Colombia designated hitter Alfaro of the San Diego Padres had two doubles and scored three runs.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Reds designated hitter Mike Moustakas followed Pham at the plate, and Moustakas was up with the bases loaded.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 18 May 2022
  • His big body, like that of Pujols, is breaking down, but there will always be at-bats at designated hitter for each.
    — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 5 Apr. 2018
  • After Twins designated hitter Nelson Cruz homered to center in the third for the game’s first run, García led off the fifth with a double.
    — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2021
  • Angels designated hitter Shohei Ohtani had one hit, a single, in four at-bats.
    — Bill Shaikin, latimes.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The only Seattle player to reach base was designated hitter Omar Narvaez, who walked with one out in the fifth inning.
    — Joe Reedy, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2019
  • That marked his first game in the field in five weeks with a hamstring injury limiting him to designated hitter duties.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2022
  • Arkansas designated hitter Kendall Diggs, the hero of last night's game with his three-run home run in the ninth inning, is back in the lineup today.
    — Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2022
  • Two players who struggled the most down the stretch — center fielder Trent Grisham and designated hitter Josh Bell — are heating up at the right time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2022
  • But White Sox designated hitter Andrew Vaughn delivered a go-ahead solo home run in the ninth.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2022
  • With a flailing swing, the Marlins designated hitter sent a two-hopper whizzing past Pepiot — who stabbed for a ball that was just out of his reach — and up the middle for a single.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But with one out in the final inning, Twins designated hitter Brent Rooker broke it up, slicing a first-pitch slider the other way for a double down the right-field line.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2021
  • Since hearing designated hitter Miguel Cabrera's plea to return to first base, Avila has thought about giving him a chance.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Blue Jays designated hitter Corey Dickerson hit a solo home run in the seventh.
    — Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • What will designated hitter by committee look like when Machado returns to third base?
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2024

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