strike zone

noun

Baseball.

1. the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to the shoulders.

Word History and Origins

Origin of strike zone¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

“I’m always thinking of throwing as much as I can in the strike zone, and I think it will be good if I pitch the way I usually do.”

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And he got the final out on a pitch that was well out of the strike zone.

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He wasn’t consistently hitting 100 mph on the radar gun or dotting the strike zone with his typically pristine command.

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“Hoping that he can do a little self-reflecting on that series, and how aggressive he was outside of the strike zone, passive in the zone,” Roberts said.

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They missed that in the wild-card round, when a string of younger pitchers struggled to consistently find the strike zone while pitching in relief.

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