in the dirt

phrase

baseball, of a pitch

: having hit the ground near home plate before reaching the catcher

He swung and missed at a curveball in the dirt.

Examples of in the dirt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Out in the dirt, bacteria have handed this spore-forming ability down for roughly 3 billion years. — Canan Karakoç, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026

Research scientist Ashish Rajurkar kneels in the dirt, lifting a large clod of soil tangled around a soybean plant. — ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

Young, who landed face-first in the dirt, reportedly was briefly knocked unconscious during the sixth-inning incident at Citi Field. — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Luis Arraez took a pitch down the middle, then flailed at a changeup almost in the dirt. — Matt Gelb, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for in the dirt

• controvert
• disconcert
• extrovert
• introvert
• reassert
• undershirt
• alert
• assert
• avert
• dessert
• divert
• evert