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sweeper
[ swee-per ]
noun
- a janitor.
- any of several fishes of the family Pempherididae, of tropical and warm, temperate seas, having an oblong, compressed body.
sweeper
/ ˈ²õ·É¾±Ë±èÉ™ /
noun
- a person employed to sweep, such as a roadsweeper
- any device for sweeping
a carpet sweeper
- informal.soccer a player who supports the main defenders, as by intercepting loose balls, etc
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It was only on Wednesday that he threw his signature sweeper in catch play for the first time.
“Street sweepers, sanitation crews took all of the property and much of the garbage that was out there, and as of this morning, it remains clean,†Dyer said in early November.
Stanton, on the other hand, can be more susceptible to sweepers, having slugged just .349 against the pitch — a specialty of several key Dodgers relievers — this season.
“Manaea actually made a really good pitch with the backdoor sweeper,†said Andrew Friedman, the team’s president of baseball operations.
But he executed a crucial three-pitch sequence against Jesse Winker, dotting a couple outer edge fastballs before snapping off a sweeper that Winker hit to left.
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