line drive

Related to line drive: Line driver

line drive

In baseball, a ball that is hit hard and travels low to the ground in a straight line. The batter hits a line drive straight back to the first baseman, who makes an easy catch for the first out of the inning. And it's a line drive right up the middle! Bases loaded for our boys in blue!
See also: drive, line
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • come in(to) line
  • come into line
  • get in(to) line
  • flatline
  • get a line on
  • get a line on (someone or something)
  • get a line on someone
  • step out of line
  • all along the line
  • all along/down the line