safe hit
Example Sentences
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A safe hit would tie the game at least, and possibly win it.
From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Lester Chadwick
The ball struck on fair ground and bounded very high, and was a safe hit.
From The Young Pitcher by Zane Grey
Their only safe hit was made by Ray Demmitt, the Tiger discard, who has not yet worn a Sox uniform long enough to forget the first use for a baseball bat.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer
Fred Rover was at the bat, and he managed to make a safe hit.
From The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Edward Stratemeyer
Now it looked dark for Harvard that inning, and not a safe hit had been made off Merriwell thus far.
From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Burt L. Standish
