foul tip

noun

Baseball.

1. a pitched ball that glances off the bat into foul territory, usually near the catcher, ruled a strike if the catcher catches it before it hits the ground, otherwise ruled an ordinary foul ball.

Word History and Origins

Origin of foul tip¹

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Example Sentences

And after the Dodgers came up empty, the Giants finally ended things in the bottom half of the inning — when Scott came into the game, walked Jung Hoo Lee after failing to get a foul tip call for a potential third strike, then gave up a line-drive missile to Bailey with the bases loaded, handing the briefly surging Dodgers another sucker punch of a late-game defeat.

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Appropriately, he was the final out of the game, swinging wildly at an Alex Vesia fastball for a strikeout on a foul tip that left the former Dodger one for 12 for the weekend.

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Roberts revealed Saturday that he pinch-hit for catcher Will Smith in Game 5 because Smith took a foul tip off the back of his left catching hand earlier in the game.

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Smith then failed to corral a potential inning-ending third strike on a foul tip, allowing Harrison Bader to score Alvarez with a single to center — an RBI aided by Andy Pages’ bobbling of the ball in the outfield, negating any attempt for a play at the plate.

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Rangers manager Bruce Bochy, a former big league catcher, said Heim can’t assume that the umpire saw the foul tip or heard anything.

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