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pinch hitter
noun
- Baseball. a substitute who bats for a teammate, often at a critical moment of the game.
- any substitute for another, especially in an emergency.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pinch hitter1
Idioms and Phrases
A substitute for another person, especially in an emergency. For example, Pat expected her mother to help with the baby, but just in case, she lined up her mother-in-law as pinch hitter . This expression comes from baseball, where it is used for a player substituting for another at bat at a critical point or in a tight situation (called a pinch since the late 1400s). [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
He fanned pinch hitter Junior Caminero, Tampa Bay鈥檚 top minor league prospect, to end his outing with five strikeouts and no walks.
D铆az didn鈥檛 play Sunday after appearing as a pinch hitter the previous day and finished with a .330 average to become Tampa Bay鈥檚 first batting champion.
He鈥檇 also watched as his team, hitless with runners in scoring position, continued that trend with pinch hitters Mike Ford and Josh Rojas failing to even move the runners and at least tie the game.
Diamondbacks: OF Corbin Carroll was replaced by a pinch hitter in the fifth after being hit on the wrist by a pitch the previous inning.
Harper has been a DH and pinch hitter since his return on May 2.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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