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line drive

noun as in baseball hit that is straight

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The deflected line drive bounced near the goal line, off the crossbar and through the uprights!

Even on a day when he struck out three times, rookie left fielder Ryan McKenna helped Wells in the eighth by playing a line drive off the wall by Teoscar Hernández quickly and holding him to a single.

A night after Mountcastle took grief for not catching a line drive into left field, a position he has barely played for two years, he had another inglorious day there.

The two cartoons shared some gags — including a “screaming line drive” that features a baseball with a screaming face and a batboy who flies up to the hitter with batwings.

In 1927, Johnson broke his leg in spring training when hit by a line drive, and never fully recovered.

Thane quickly looked over at the galactic map to see if they could have managed to get back into warp-line drive.

There was a pause, then the familiar shummer and they were on the warp-line drive.

The third batter hit the ball with fierceness, but Jack took it for a line drive, and that inning was over.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to line drive, such as: liner, clothesline, line shot, and rope.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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