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

In the eighth, Duran was thrown out trying to advance to third on a ball in the dirt to end the inning. — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Edge rusher Bud Dupree sniffed out a screen pass and forced a throw in the dirt; then rookie edge rusher Akheem Mesidor had a sack off the edge. — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Six of those changeups — nearly a quarter — were balls in the dirt. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026

Marvin also has kind of been in the dirt with some of this stuff. — Ronda Racha Penrice, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2026

Rhymes for in the dirt

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