A high bouncing ground ball as a result of the batter sharply hitting the ball downward, landing in front of the home plate, is referred to as a Baltimore chop. Ideally, the ball should bounce so high that a player known as a batter can hit it, and that the catcher will have a hard time fielding it. The chop was a strategy named after a team known as the Baltimore Orioles that placed cement within the infield to produce higher bounces that go over the infielders’ heads.
