How to Use outfield in a Sentence

outfield

noun
  • The team has one of the best outfields in the league.
  • He threw the ball to home plate from the outfield.
  • Massey can go to the outfield if need be.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Massey can go to the outfield if need be.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Their guy throws well in the outfield.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And the fit in the outfield would work, too.
    — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Laser-like throws from the outfield.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
  • How will the new-look outfield shake out?
    — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Ward has played all three outfield spots this camp.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Loftin can move around the field, the left side and the outfield.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 28 Apr. 2026
  • This fills out the Mets’ outfield.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Aaron Judge has one of the three outfield spots locked up.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Hays comes to the Sox ready to help at any outfield spot.
    — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • What is the plan to fix the outfield defense?
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The sausages stretched in the outfield as the chefs lined up along the third base line.
    — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • The outfield was shrunk, spicing up all games.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The outfield is spacious and bounces off the turf can be a bit quick.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 June 2021
  • Fans groaned as a deep fly ball pulled just foul into the outfield seats.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The ball sailed into the night, over the outfield, over the fence.
    — Thomas Lake, CNN, 12 July 2024
  • Rodríguez was moved to the outfield and is one of the team’s top prospects.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • As far as the outfield goes, there are two paths that would clear up the lineup.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
  • That would leave George Springer to play in the outfield.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The ball then bounced over the yellow line on the outfield fence that marks a home run.
    — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • Aaron Judge then lined out to the outfield to end the inning.
    — Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • His path to playing time last season was in the outfield.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Judge is not too happy about being held out of the outfield.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • India had to learn the outfield in a short timeframe.
    — Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The Dodgers, who badly could use outfield help.
    — Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The height of the outfield walls will also be lowered.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Feb. 2026
  • At the same time, our outfield defense was the best in baseball.
    — Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025

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