grounder
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- n (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
- Then Burgess Whitehead slapped a grounder that unluckily struck Danning as he was running from first to second, thus putting him out for being hit with a batted ball.
- With a flick of the wrists, he smacked a grounder to deep short that San Diego's Ozzie Smith fielded flawlessly.
- But in a losing cause, Rollins handled three hot shots to third flawlessly, and shut off a National League rally with a one-hand grab of Tommy Davis' ripping sixth-inning grounder.