strike zone

noun

: the area over home plate through which a pitched baseball must pass to be called a strike

Examples of strike zone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The optimal strike zones, marked as bright crosshairs in the model, show where a spacecraft could nudge an asteroid's orbit away from Earth without triggering a dangerous return later on. —Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025

Teams may also give some players with better strike zone command the green light to challenge while prohibiting others. —Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 25 Sep. 2025

While the strike zone actually called by big league umpires tends to be oval in shape, the ABS strike zone is a rectangle, as in the rule book. —Ronald Blum, Twin Cities, 23 Sep. 2025

The league’s Hawk-Eye technology will be running in the background and monitoring pitch locations throughout the game relative to the batter’s strike zone. —Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

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Kids Definition

strike zone

noun

: the area (as from the armpits to the tops of the knees of a batter) over home plate through which a baseball pitch must pass to be called a strike