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go the route

go the route verb: to pitch for an entire game, without a relief pitcher.

Verb

go the route (third-person singular simple present goes the route, present participle going the route, simple past went the route, past participle gone the route)

  1. To pitch for an entire game, without a relief pitcher.
    • It was like old times: Grove, Earnshaw, and Walberg went the route seven times in the next 13 games.2015, Norman L. Macht, The Grand Old Man of Baseball

Forms of go the route

third-person singular presentgoes the route
present participlegoing the route
pastwent the route
past participlegone the route

Questions about go the route

What does go the route mean?
Go the route means to pitch for an entire game, without a relief pitcher.
What part of speech is go the route?
Go the route is a verb.
What is the past tense of go the route?
The past tense of go the route is went the route.

Words near go the route in the dictionary

  1. go tell your mother she wants you
  2. go the distance
  3. go the entire animal
  4. go the entire swine
  5. go the extra mile
  6. go the route
  7. go the way of
  8. go the way of all flesh
  9. go the way of all the earth
  10. go the way of the dinosaurs
  11. go the way of the dodo

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