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Examples of cutoff man in a Sentence
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Center fielder Kiké Hernández collected the bloop single and threw the ball to the mound, where Casas should have been as the cutoff man, but the first baseman was late to cover and the ball reached home plate.
—Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
Hopefully, that includes practicing being the cutoff man.
—Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
The ball kicked right, ricocheting off the padding in foul territory before Rob Refsnyder corralled it, tossing it toward the first cutoff man, Christian Arroyo, who positioned himself in short right field.
—Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
In left field, Fraley tried to start a relay to catch a baserunner at home plate, and his throw sailed high over the heads of the cutoff man and the backup cutoff man.
—Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 13 May 2023
Center fielder Ramon Laureano, while charging Luis Robert’s RBI single, checked his earpiece before starting his sprint to the ball, then made an errant throw that cutoff man Matt Olson had to lunge for and dropped, allowing Robert to take second base.
—John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 1 Oct. 2020
In what turned out to be the defensive play of the game, the Cardinals had a runner cut down at home plate when center fielder Liam Ramos hit Corley, his cutoff man at shortstop and Corley turned and threw a strike to catcher Michael Coleman to end the fourth inning for an 8-6-2 out.
—Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 8 July 2020
Renfroe overthrew the cutoff man.
—BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2021
Manuel Margot hit cutoff man Mike Brosseau.
—Ian Quillen, ajc, 1 July 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1967, in the meaning defined above
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“Cutoff man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cutoff%20man. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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