In baseball, an out that occurs when a batter hits the ball on the ground and is thrown out before reaching base.
From ground + out (Old English 'ūt'). A baseball term that emerged in the 19th century as the sport's terminology developed to describe specific play outcomes.
The groundout is statistically one of the most common ways a batter gets out, yet historians debate whether baseball even had this term before the 1880s—the language of sports evolves as fast as the game itself.
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