base runner
Example Sentences
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Abrams dropped in a soft single to right for the Nats first base runner to start the fourth inning.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
The right-hander pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing just one base runner on a walk and striking out three.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Verlander didn’t allow another base runner until Rojas got him in the ninth.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
He struck out the side in the first on 13 pitches, whiffed seven of the first nine overall and didn’t allow a base runner until Zack Gelof’s one-out single in the fourth.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2023
For an instant the third base runner hesitated, fearing a caught fly, and that instant cost his side the game.
From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead
