right fielder
The team's regular centre fielder will miss the game due to an ankle injury.
By the time the centrefielder got to the ball, there was no chance to throw the runner out.
He hit the ball just over the head of the centre fielder.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Baseball & rounders
1-2-3 inning
ahead
alley
around the hornidiom
at bat
bomb
curve
hit the ball out of the parkidiom
hitting coach
home plate
home stand
horsehide
hot corner
sac
spitter
split-fingered fastball
splitter
squeeze play
starting pitcher
swing