NOUN
- an area on a baseball diamond (on either side of home plate) marked by lines within which the batter must stand when at bat
How To Use batter's box In A Sentence
- If he does, the umpire will merely direct the proper batter to take his place in the batter's box while inheriting the count.
- the umpire warned the batter to stay in the batter's box
- Ballplayers will try to gain an edge whenever possible whether it's doctoring baseballs, corking bats, or taking an illegal position in the batter's box.
- Carew was so prepared by the time he stepped in the batter's box that many pitchers never stood a chance.
- He'll never be a star defensively or on the base paths, so his value will come when he's in the batter's box.
- He felt a twinge underneath the bone while pushing off out of the batter's box and running to first.
- Rice promptly pulled out his tape measure and measured the proper outline of the batter's box.
- The umpire called him out for stepping out of the batter's box.
- The power-hitting first baseman was injured on the final play of Philadelphia's season-ending loss to St. Louis in Game 5 of the NL division series Friday night, falling as he ran out of the batter's box on his groundout. Ryan Howard Injury: Achilles Tendon Is Torn According To Phillies
- - raises dust, methodically erasing and re-erasing the back line of the batter's box, and chews and spits and touches his crotch to make sure it's still there, the white foul lines stretch and stretch, way out to where forever might be, and the orange-yellow smoke curls into the night and the blood rushes down the Oriental man's head his bandanna is a swaying burgundy lagoon with floating Chinese characters. The Daily Iowan - Online Edition