Definition of "pinch-hitter" [pinch-hitter]

• Alternative spelling of pinch hitter. (noun)

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• "Manager Jim Tracy instead sent pinch-hitter Ryan Doumit to the plate, and as a light rain began to fall, Cox sprang from the dugout and shuffled toward the mound, his artificial knees seeming to creak with each step."
• "Sabathia had answered the call; and would do so in the sixth, when he got pinch-hitter Ben Francisco flied out to end the sixth with a runner on second."
• "But when pinch-hitter Eric Hinske lined a two-run homer off Sergio Romo in the eighth, the Braves suddenly had the lead."