rake
v.— «He rakes pitches like that because he’s a low-ball hitter. His power is to right and right-center. They can come inside, but he has the strength like Jim Rice to fight it off. And if they make a mistake….» —“Go East, Young Man…And Return In A Powerful Way—That Was Cecil Fielder’s Route” by Larry Whiteside Boston Globe May 29, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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