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(baseball) An official scoring play in which a batter is hit by a pitched ball, and is awarded first base as a result, and where the batter is referred to as a hit batsman..
Use hit-by-pitch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hit-by-pitch means (baseball) An official scoring play in which a batter is hit by a pitched ball, and is awarded first base as a result, and where the batter is referred to as a hit batsman..
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