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grapefruit league

noun

Baseball Informal.
  1. a series of training games played by major-league teams before the opening of the season (so named because they take place in the citrus-growing South, as in Florida).


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Origin of grapefruit league1

First recorded in 1950–55
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Still, after experimenting with the idea of ABS at various levels of the minor leagues over the last half-decade, MLB decided to give it a trial run in spring training this year, installing the Hawk-Eye technology at select Cactus and Grapefruit League ballparks — the Dodgers’ Camelback Ranch facility among them — in its most ambitious effort yet to make balls and strikes reviewable.

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He likes the proximity of the Cactus League parks as compared to the distance in the Grapefruit League in Florida.

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Burnes worked one scoreless inning for the Baltimore Orioles and struck out the first two batters he faced Saturday in the 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner’s Grapefruit League debut.

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Michael Harris led off the first inning of the Braves’ Grapefruit League opener and homered on the first pitch he saw from Tampa Bay’s Nathan Wiles.

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He went to camp with Baltimore in 2021 but had a 7.94 ERA in Grapefruit League games with fastball velocity in the mid-80-mph range.

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