off the bat

phrase

: without delay : immediately

recognized him right off the bat

Examples of off the bat in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With a man on and one out, a Guerrero single and a grounder off the bat of George Springer followed. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, right fielder Jung Hoo Lee appeared to misread what should’ve been an inning-ending fly out off the bat of Duran. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

This speech was four pages long, with no stops, and that could have been quite a lot to just receive off the bat. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 July 2026

But New York got to him in the fifth, inducing three walks while getting a two-run homer off the bat of Max Schuemann. — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 4 July 2026

Rhymes for off the bat

• acrobat
• autocrat
• automat
• bundesrat
• bureaucrat
• butterfat
• caveat
• chemostat
• copycat
• cryostat
• democrat
• diplomat