the strike zone

noun

baseball

: the area over home plate where the baseball must pass after it is pitched in order to be called a strike

Examples of the strike zone in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Pitching to his historical pattern of being dominant in April before turning into a completely different pitcher in May, the big right-hander was fine through the first two innings before losing the strike zone and failing to make it through the third. —Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025

Over the past four years, the Blue Jays slugger has at least a .269 batting average on pitches in all nine quadrants of the strike zone. —Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 15 May 2025

Williams ultimately earned a free trip to first base after four pitches landed outside the strike zone. —Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2025

Dodgers starter Dustin May was good, dotting the corners of the strike zone with his wicked sinker-sweeper combination en route to a 6 ⅔-inning, two-run, five-strikeout outing — his longest since returning from a second career elbow surgery this year. —Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025

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