plural dingers
baseball, informal
: home run sense 1
Only the Royals, Astros and Cubs have given up more dingers than the Angels.—
Stephen Cannella
Stephen CannellaRamirez had driven in 72 runs and had scored himself 49 times, while smacking 16 dingers …—David Sabino
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Grisham’s first dinger of Saturday’s game came off left-handed Pirates starter Bailey Falter in the third inning.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025
Judge then blasted his third dinger of the day, a two-run jack, in the fourth inning.
—Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
Lee’s first dinger of the finale only put one run on the board in the fourth frame after Rodón left a 3-2 slider over the middle.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
Newcomer Jorge Soler also logged two-run dingers on both Saturday and Sunday.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025
Judge then blasted his third dinger of the day, a two-run jack, in the fourth inning.
—Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
Lee’s first dinger of the finale only put one run on the board in the fourth frame after Rodón left a 3-2 slider over the middle.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Apr. 2025
Newcomer Jorge Soler also logged two-run dingers on both Saturday and Sunday.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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“Dinger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinger. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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