Read full poem →to hit. And how [ hit! At one time I allowed myself 16 home runs in a row.
Another time I batted in 24 runs in one game. By the end of the season I
was hitting .523.
Dictionary Entry
To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
In a Sentence
“He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
ball battedaround battedbatted runsbatted never
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Poetry examples for “batted”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.