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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.
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Origin of leadoff1
Example Sentences
Don’t forget Michael Conforto, running into an out and killing a rally, but still having the composure to set up Muncy’s big hit with a leadoff single in the eighth.
He worked around a temporary lapse of command in the second, stranding a pair of leadoff walks without further stress.
Originally, on a night the Dodgers gave normal No. 2 hitter Mookie Betts a scheduled day off following his battle with a stomach virus last week, the team had switch-hitter Tommy Edman following leadoff man Shohei Ohtani in the batting order.
The game started with Bucknor, the leadoff hitter who came into the game with a .421 average, collecting a double.
Even after opening the game with a pitch-clock violation that resulted in a leadoff walk to Ian Happ, Yamamoto pitched a scoreless first inning.
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