How to Use slugger in a Sentence

slugger

noun

• The Padres slugger already has four home runs in 27 at-bats against Urías.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
• The union of this slugger and this franchise makes too much sense to sever.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Chicago Cubs heckling a slugger who was down in the count.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• The New York Yankees slugger is running out of time to hit his 62nd homer.
  — Stephen Hawkins, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2022
• There are 26 Hall of Fame first basemen, and sluggers are more common at that spot.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 21 July 2023
• In the bottom of the eighth inning, Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez launched a home run to cut the Rangers’ lead to 5-4.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
• Dubon’s throw reached the plate well before the slugger got there after Stanton glanced at the toss halfway down the third base line.
  — Larry Fleisher, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
• The 32-year-old slugger’s voice broke ever so slightly.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• The slugger, who had a ninth-inning homer in Saturday’s 2-1 loss to the Rays, flied out to the edge of the warning track in center with two on to end the eighth.
  — Mark Didtler, Hartford Courant, 4 Sep. 2022
• The team’s top slugger, Aaron Judge, hit 62 home runs this season, breaking Roger Maris’ 61-year-old record.
  — cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
• Counting the ways that the Padres’ signing of aging slugger Nelson Cruz makes sense is easy.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
• The slugger who's been criticized for poor defense in the past has been making big plays in left field, too.
  — Kristie Rieken, ajc, 14 Oct. 2022
• Now at 36, a reunion would make a good fit for the veteran slugger on a team that reached the World Series last year.
  — USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
• On the first pitch of that at-bat, however, the slugger rolled over a center-cut sinker from Padres closer Robert Suarez.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Hebbert had the pitch count even at 2-2 before forcing the slugger to swing at an 80 mph pitch that was just outside the strike zone.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
• But the slugger did hit the final homer in the Rangers’ former stadium across the street when the Yankees were the opponent for the last game played there in 2019.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 4 Oct. 2022
• The Astros signed first baseman Jose Abreu on Monday, adding the right-handed slugger on a three year deal.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 28 Nov. 2022
• Not that the Bronx Bombers, mind you, are some wail-and-bail outfit fronted by slugger Aaron Judge’s record-setting 62 home runs.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022
• Baez years ago when the right-hander was facing Reds slugger Russell Branyan.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
• New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge is known for his power at the plate, but the outfielder's glove is a force to be reckoned with.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 4 June 2023
• But now, Derby sluggers wear their team’s jersey during that event, as do their hype men on the sideline.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• Already, the slugger is playing his way into an important role on the Dodgers’ new-look team.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• The Twins have agreed to a one-year deal with free-agent slugger Carlos Santana, a major league source confirmed late Friday.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2024
• Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa was part of the season-long spectacle.
  — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• The slugger played for seven teams in 22 years and spent the most time — parts of six seasons — and won his only World Series with the Florida Marlins.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Righty slugger Luke Voit wasn’t a fan of the Padres’ home, likening it to a hitters’ graveyard soon after he was traded last August.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2023
• This week, hours after Ohtani’s news conference, two fathers stood in the right field bleachers, where many of the slugger’s home run balls will surely land.
  — Tim Arango Sinna Nasseri, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• Rooker is a bit of a late bloomer by baseball standards, coming off a 30-homer season that helped the 29-year-old become a first-time All-Star and the latest in a long line of sluggers for the A's.
  — David Brandt, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• The right-hander gave up a solo home run to slugger Matt Olson in the first inning, as Wells left a fastball over the plate that the first baseman blasted 413 feet to center field.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2023
• Showshoe Softball Tournament: Step up to the plate, slugger!
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024