How to Use line drive in a Sentence

line drive

noun
  • He hit a hard line drive to the shortstop.
  • The line drive struck Flowers’ glove and dropped to the ground.
    Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 13 May 2021
  • Shogo Akiyama recorded his first hit of the season with a line drive to left field.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 14 May 2021
  • No one moved very much when a batter for the Yankees drove a line drive toward left field.
    New York Times, 1 May 2021
  • Mark Canha watched his line drive carry into center field.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2021
  • Chapman prevented a second run with a lunging grab of a line drive by Joey Wendle.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Kaymie Chandler led off the eighth with a single, was sacrificed to second, and scored on Carithers’ line drive to center field.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 1 May 2021
  • Shortstop Thomas Vogiatzis made a diving catch of a line drive off the bat of Roy Carrasco.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2021
  • The next batter, Harold Castro, singled on a line drive to right field to officially chase Singer.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2021
  • Two batters later, Rafael Devers hit a line drive, opposite field shot to left, the game’s scoring done in its first hour.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • During a pregame warmup, Phillies right fielder Bryce Harper batted a line drive right into a ball zooming in from the outfield.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 10 May 2021
  • Paul Goldschmidt homered in the first, a 417-foot line drive off the Big Mac Land sign on the front of the third deck in left.
    Warren Mayes, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
  • Winker’s line drive carried to right-center field, bounced on a terrace outside PNC Park and fell into the river.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 12 May 2021
  • Both runners moved up a base when Toby Welk grounded out and wit two away, Kyle Stowers drove both runners in with a line drive single to center.
    Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 5 May 2021
  • In addition to general location, the Sun also recorded the handedness of the batter who hit the foul ball and made a determination on whether the ball was hit as more of a line drive or a popup.
    Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 7 May 2021
  • The shot left his hands like a line drive and clanged off the rim.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The first pitch of the inning was a line drive base hit to right field.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2022
  • His line drive to left cleared the wall for a grand slam that tied the score.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2022
  • Nicky Lopez’s line drive had struck him near the right hip.
    Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 June 2021
  • The line drive Rutschman hit in the bottom of the 10th inning Thursday?
    Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
  • Bassitt was struck on the side of the head by a line drive against the Chicago White Sox.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The right-hander took a line drive off his face in a 9-0 loss to the White Sox.
    Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep. 2021
  • His 377-foot line drive hit off the top of the wall in right field and fell for a single.
    Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 14 Sep. 2022
  • But in the top of the second, Daz Cameron hit a line drive off Keller, which knocked him out of the game.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2022
  • The third run scored on a line drive to right by Juan Soto.
    Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2022
  • But this is just a straight-line drive with his off hand, all the way to the rim, on Huerter.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Both plays – the Smith line drive grab and the Durán throw – impressed Woodward.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 22 June 2022
  • The 23-year-old was hit in the knee with a line drive from Colin Moran on the final pitch of the third.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Herrera was standing on the dugout steps during the team’s game against the Chicago White Sox when a vicious line drive came screaming into the dugout.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 27 June 2024
  • Thomas smoked a line drive to the left-center gap with one out in the second and barely beat the throw to second for a double, extending his hitting streak to nine games.
    Miami Herald, 16 June 2024

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