Ground Ball

A ground ball is a ball when hit travels along the ground. There are many nicknames for a grounder. One of the most famous is a chopper, which is a ball that bounces high.

A scratch hit is a weakly hit ground ball that eludes the infielders and leads to a base hit, also known as a bleeder.

A batted ground ball that just eludes capture by an infielder, just out of infielder's range, as if it could "see" where it needed to go is sometimes called a seeing-eye ball. Less commonly used for a ball that takes an unusual lateral bounce to elude an infielder.

Daisy cutter is an old-fashioned term for a hard-hit ground ball, close enough to the grass to theoretically be able to lop the tops off any daisies that might be growing on the field.

Worm burner is a hard hit ground ball that "burns" the ground.