From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfly ballˈfly ball noun [countable] DSBa ball that has been hit high into the air in a game of baseball
Examples from the Corpus
fly ball• Burrell injured himself diving for a fly ball a day earlier, and was feeling some pain yesterday.• It appeared he had one of them when Brady Anderson lofted a high fly ball to center.• On the first pitch of the game, their lead-off hitter swatted a lazy fly ball down the right-field line.• David Justice was next, and he lofted what appeared to be a routine fly ball to medium center. 