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leadoff
[ leed-awf, -of ]
noun
- an act that starts something; start; beginning.
- Baseball. the player who is first in the batting order or who is first to bat for a team in an inning.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of leadoff1
Example Sentences
He couldn’t, giving up a leadoff double and then a walk-off two-run home run to Adolis García for a 4-3 loss at Globe Life Field.
That reality said more about the rest of the team’s offense than its superstar leadoff man.
Shohei Ohtani blasted a 448-foot leadoff home run to the top of the right-field pavilion.
After responding to a leadoff single with his sixth strikeout of the game, Miller lost his feel for, what up to that point, had been an effective curveball.
The Dodgers gift-wrapped some insurance to the Cubs in the eighth, giving up another run after Conforto missed a fly ball near the left-field line for a leadoff double.
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