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fungo
[ fuhng-goh ]
noun
- (in practice sessions) a ball tossed into the air by the batter and struck as it comes down.
- a batted ball, especially a fly ball, hit in this manner.
- Also called fungo bat. a bat used in hitting fungoes, being lighter, longer, and narrower than an ordinary baseball bat.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fungo1
Example Sentences
Each day, with Montero’s iPads filming Betts’ every move, Montero hit Betts grounders with a fungo bat for upward of two hours.
“I didn’t come in here worried about the circumstances because the only way to change them is to help make that change,” Washington said, dragging on a cigarette with his trusty black fungo bat in hand in the Angels’ dugout.
That’s why, every day, Betts is on the field early, taking full-intensity grounders off a fungo training bat while a large clock times his ability to turn plays at game speed — 4.3 seconds is the standard time to beat.
The coaches played “fungo golf” which they got one swing with a fungo bat on a baseball to try and hit it as close to a flagstick, which was being held the Mariners Moose, for three different holes.
One goalpost was mounted near the third-base fungo circle.
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