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batted in

batted in is the simple past and past participle of bat in.

Meaning of bat in

Verb

bat in (third-person singular simple present bats in, present participle batting in, simple past and past participle batted in)

  1. (transitive) To bat so that a runner on base effects (a run).
    • a. 2001, William Harrington, Elliott Roosevelt's Murder at the President's Door: An Eleanor Roosevelt Mystery, 2003 edition, →ISBN, page 55,
      In 1927, when Ruth hit sixty home runs, Gehrig had a better batting average and batted in more runs.

Questions about batted in

What is batted in the simple past and past participle of?
Batted in is the simple past and past participle of bat in.

Words near batted in in the dictionary

  1. batted deep
  2. batted five hundred
  3. batted for both sides
  4. batted for the other side
  5. batted for the other team
  6. batted in
  7. batted one's eyelashes
  8. batted one's eyes
  9. batted out
  10. batted round
  11. batted the breeze

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Adapted from Wiktionary: batted in (page history and authors); bat in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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