How to Use the strike zone in a Sentence

the strike zone

noun
Definition of the strike zonenext
  • On the bright side, Daniel again pounded the strike zone.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 3 July 2024
  • Much of her work is painting the lower half of the strike zone.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2024
  • The throw, however, was right in the middle of the strike zone.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Drop them back and into the strike zone under the bridge.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Only one of them came on a pitch outside of the strike zone.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
  • The pitch was below the strike zone, crossing the plate just 17.4 inches above the ground.
    — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2024
  • Missing up in the strike zone may have been a sign of fatigue.
    — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • Betts struck out on a slider that was below and wide of the strike zone.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The pitcher no longer has to throw four pitches out of the strike zone to walk the batter like in the past.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Getting some swings and misses up (in the strike zone) is key.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Hence, the pitchers’ counter-counter move: Hard four-seam fastballs up in the strike zone.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • Great hitters hit pitches out of the strike zone … for base hits.
    — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Hitters tend to swing under it as the baseball glides through the strike zone.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Like a pitcher with no feel for the strike zone, Fraction fired the ball all over the place — but with a purpose.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Except this might have been a decent time to try something in the strike zone.
    — Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Just one of his first seven pitches found the strike zone, and by the end of the first inning, the Giants were in a 3-0 hole.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 9 June 2024
  • But Lange struck out Royce Lewis with a curveball inside the strike zone to strand the bases loaded.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2023
  • So, too, did the percentage of his fastballs that landed in the strike zone, up from 41% to 50%.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • On Wednesday, the art of the illusion extended to the strike zone, too.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 31 May 2023
  • One way to measure the difficulty is to calculate the time the ball spends in the strike zone.
    — WIRED, 16 June 2023
  • Now ahead in the count, Mayer got another slider — this time in the strike zone.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • After that, just stayed on attack, get on the strike zone early.
    — James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 16 June 2024
  • Conversely, the Giants are chasing 30.2% of the time they get pitched outside the strike zone, smack dab in the middle of the league.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
  • From their seats behind home plate, Kenny and Paula watched James swing through a 1-0 slider out of the strike zone.
    — Andrew Golden, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • The 30-year-old located his pitches and filled up the strike zone from the onset of his outing.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2023
  • To that end, he’s spent his offseason working on getting to balls down in the strike zone.
    — The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • With runners at first and second, Trevor Stephan struck out George Springer on a fastball at the bottom of the strike zone.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Those plays just give me momentum to continue to pound the strike zone and keep my pitch count down.
    — Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
  • With one out and the bases loaded, Mets pitcher Tommy Hunter wound up and threw a pitch that landed on the inside edge of the strike zone.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Cortes had Pillar down 0-2 before the Angel hit a pitch several inches outside the strike zone.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2024

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