spit on

spit on
 v. phr.— «Francoeur has started to “spit on” more pitches, baseball parlance for laying off obvious balls out of the strike zone.» —“He’s not gonna take it” by Ray Glier Sporting News Sept. 16, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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