safe hit
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If successful this play results in a safe hit, while the runner not infrequently makes, not only second, but third-base as well.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
It looked like a safe hit to center field, but as the crack of the bat sounded on the air Jack Rover was seen to leap high up with hand out-stretched.
From The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Edward Stratemeyer
Rattleton had the utmost confidence in his chum, and he had offered to bet that not one of the first three men up would get a safe hit off him.
From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Burt L. Standish
After two strikes, one of them a foul, Rigby managed to get a safe hit to first.
From The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck Stirring Adventures in the Oil Fields by Edward Stratemeyer
You held those fellows down and never gave them a single safe hit!
From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Burt L. Standish
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