0 in baseball, the player whose turn it is to hit the ball:
Davis is expected to see action primarily as a designated hitter (= a player who regularly hits instead of another player, usually instead of the pitcher, each time it is the other player's turn to hit).
In the seventh inning, the manager inserted Trammell as a pinch hitter (= a player who hits instead of another player after the other player has appeared in the game).
1 a player in baseball who hits the ball with the bat (= stick):
They learn, for example, that the verb hit can have a hitter, a thing hit, and a thing hit with argument.
The legends of the game were all power hitters.
In baseball, it is an inning victory for a team to get three opponent hitters out without scoring.
When one hitter becomes out, then "one down and two more to go" is the current condition necessary to accomplish the goal of getting all three outs.
We should see more lives saved in 12 months than are consumed in a century of hitter and savage war.
Clearly, the hitter words of the dead student's father had much more human impact than the reasoned explanation of a public official.
There is no fate more hitter than to be a refugee in one's own country.
When hitter bins are available, they must be emptied.
