go the route

English

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

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