letter-high
Britishadjective
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Piazza fouled a grounder off a letter-high inside pitch and his bat shattered, with the largest chunk - the barrel head - going back to the mound.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2019
Grandal strikes out swinging on a letter-high fastball.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
No choking up was necessary Saturday when he drove a letter-high, full-count fastball over the right-field wall to put the Yankees ahead, 1-0, in the first inning.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2015
Boggs’s first pitch was a letter-high 95-mile-per-hour fastball that Napoli sent soaring 392 feet into the left-field bleachers to the delight of virtually all of the 51,539 fans at the Ballpark.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2011
Nick Evans, who spent most of this season at Class AAA Buffalo, smashed another home run in the second, on a fastball Detwiler left letter-high on the inside half of the plate.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2011
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