| 100% | TAGOUT | 6 | Touch with the ball, in baseball |
| 64% | TAG | 3 | Touch with the ball, as a base runner |
| 63% | BAT | 3 | Used to hit the ball in baseball |
| 62% | OFFENSE | 7 | Team with the ball, in football |
| 62% | SET | 3 | Second contact with the ball, in volleyball |
| 61% | HOLDER | 6 | One kneeling with the ball in a field goal attempt |
| 59% | MAUL | 4 | Loose scrum formed around a rugby player with the ball in hand |
| 59% | BOWL | 4 | Salad holder ... or what medium pacers do with the ball in cricket |
| 57% | MASH | 4 | Hit the ball well, in baseball slang |
| 56% | PITCHER | 7 | In baseball, one who throws the ball to the batter |
| 56% | GEHRIG | 6 | Player with the first retired number in baseball |
| 54% | BAT | 3 | What you hit the ball with during a baseball game? |
| 54% | CUBA | 4 | Country with the most all-time medals in Olympic baseball |
| 54% | CALLMYCHILDREN | 14 | Keep in touch with the kids I raised? |
| 52% | BEAN | 4 | Hit in the head with a pitched baseball |
| 51% | BULLDURHAM | 10 | Sports movie with the line "I believe in the Church of Baseball" (2 wds.) |
| 51% | SEANCE | 6 | Event for getting in touch with the dead |
| 50% | KISS | 4 | Touch with the lips |
| 50% | LICK | 4 | Touch with the tongue |
| 50% | FELT | 4 | Touched with the fingers |
| 49% | OFFENSE | 7 | Side with the ball |
| 48% | BUNTS | 5 | Offensive plays in baseball where the batter intentionally holds the bat loosely and taps the ball into play |
| 48% | TRIES | 5 | When balls touch the ground in rugby |
| 48% | CLEVELAND | 9 | With 47-Across, baseball team that surpassed the American League's longest winning streak in 2017 |
| 48% | OAKLAND | 7 | With 26-Across, baseball team that surpassed the American League's longest winning streak in 2002 |
| 48% | BAT | 3 | Hits a ball in baseball |
| 48% | SERVE | 5 | Put the ball in play |
| 48% | BUBBLE | 6 | ___ tea, Taiwanese tea-based drink with chewy tapioca balls, that originated in the 1980s |
| 47% | BEAD | 4 | Small ball with a hole in the middle |
| 47% | ANTHONY | 7 | With 38-Across, actor who played baseball's Jim Piersall in the 1957 biopic "Fear Strikes Out" |