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Then, as the first position player groups took batting practice, Eldridge grabbed Lee’s glove and headed out to left field to shag fly balls alongside outfielder Drew Gilbert.—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026 As a Boston native, Stone’s accent is thicker than chowdah, bless her, with a laugh that lilts like a fly ball onto Lansdowne Street.—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 25 Jan. 2026 Mack assigned a run value to every fly ball hit in Kauffman, then layered on the team’s current roster of hitters and pitchers, its opponents, the wind patterns and even the stadium’s altitude.—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 18 Jan. 2026 The Royals didn’t arrive here on a whim, nor to appease the complaints of the hitters who have more than a time or two rushed to their phones after a game to study their own launch angles and exit velocities, trying to compute how in the world a fly ball didn’t leave the yard.—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fly ball