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What does "up around letters" mean?
The third pitch Masahiro Tanaka threw in the major leagues was lousy, an 86-mph floater up around the letters that Blue Jays leadoff man Melky Cabrera deposited over the Roger Centre’s right-field fence for a home run.
What does "up around letters" mean?
The third pitch Masahiro Tanaka threw in the major leagues was lousy, an 86-mph floater up around the letters that Blue Jays leadoff man Melky Cabrera deposited over the Roger Centre’s right-field fence for a home run.
The third pitch Masahiro Tanaka threw in the major leagues was lousy, an 86-mph floater up around the letters that Blue Jays leadoff man Melky Cabrera deposited over the Roger Centre’s right-field fence for a home run.
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I don't know anything about baseball, but I asked Google and apparently it means "barely within the strike zone" because the ball was almost higher than the letters on the player's jersey? Does that make sense?
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