Sentences with phrase «a baseball history»

It wound up being a momentous day not just in baseball history, but in the history of a country that has plenty of issues with equal treatment in the workplace.

The Red Sox left fielder is one of the greatest players in baseball history, a 19 - time All Star and the last player to finish a season with a.400 batting average or higher.

They ended it with Kershaw, the best orb - chucker in baseball, if not, I don't know, baseball history.

When it comes to baseball history, these are already two of the longest championship droughts that have ever existed in the sport.

Cincinnati Reds infielder Scooter Gennett became the 17th player in baseball history to hit four home runs in one game, clubbing a quartet of home runs against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.

It should read «Jurickson Profar is the strangest first baseman in recent baseball history, but he sort of has to be.»

This isn't a knock on Lee, who is still one of the most effective pitchers in baseball history.

Kershaw is roughly the equivalent of one of the greatest closers in baseball history, stretched out for seven or eight innings at a time, unless you get him for the full nine innings.

Let's quickly recap all of the reasons Harper will be the most expensive free agent in baseball history:

That didn't just add to his mystique — it made him a fascinating, rare specimen in baseball history that we got to study.

If they let Harper leave via free agency, do the Nationals slot Victor Robles in for Harper in right, wait for Juan Soto to develop, and then spend the money coming off the books and what they would have committed to Harper in what's thought of as one of the best free agent classes in baseball history next winter?»

Three years ago, the Astros were one of the worst non-expansion teams in baseball history, and the Reds had a young, dominant rotation.

It's ignorant of baseball history, and of what separates the best AAAA players from the All - Stars, the incremental changes that can lead to exponential gains.

By the time he was pulled from the rotation, Lee became one of the few pitchers in baseball history to allow seven earned runs in three consecutive starts.

This is the first period in baseball history where stimulants and PEDs are heavily regulated.

And because of teams leaving Canseco and Sierra alone, it led to one of the most compelling trades in baseball history, even if it flopped for both sides.

Even Mike Trout, owner of one of the most ridiculous starts to a career in baseball history, had just a 47 percent chance at 500 homers before this season.

Pete Rose is the all - time leader for hits in Major League Baseball history, and that's indisputable, but what Ichiro did, spanning two decades and two countries, in an era of LOOGYs and power closers, while performing at a high level and not writing himself into the lineup, just might be more impressive.

In the AL, Mike Trout is a finalist yet again, finishing in the top three for the fifth consecutive year, just the third time that's happened in baseball history (Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols were the last two).

And if 75 % of the voters think Jack Morris had the Kirby je ne sais quoi that Kevin Brown lacked — that he's someone who defined baseball while he was active, and who should be remembered as a significant part of baseball history — that's just swell.

No - hitters have always been a metaphor for every championship season in baseball history — took some skill, took some luck, was sure a lot of fun, wheeeeeeee, let's do it again!

Velocity is going up, up, up, just as it's gone up throughout baseball history.

For the first time in baseball history, Brewers fans are concerned with the Rockies, and vice versa, and that makes it feel just a touch artificial.

The A's say this is most likely one of the first completely free games in baseball history.

That's a pitcher hitting a baseball, which shouldn't have anything to do with the best Opening Day starts in baseball history.

It's perfectly fine if this is the end: A-Rod is one of the greatest players in baseball history, a lightning rod in the industry well before PEDs ever came up, and he did his time when he was caught with them, anyway — well, when MLB obstructed a federal investigation to make sure he was caught with them so Bud Selig could use his last year as commissioner as a victory lap, but who remembers such unimportant details?

It was a great moment in polite baseball history.

Which means that in baseball history, there hasn't been a collapse like this that wasn't directly attributable to injuries.

There are 174 players in baseball history who had six or more seasons with an above - average adjusted OPS before turning 28.

The three contenders for the best Opening Day start in baseball history:

The 2012 Cincinnati Reds had one of the best pitching staffs in baseball history.

Griffin gave up 28 homers in 119 innings, which is one of the highest rates in baseball history for any pitcher over 100 innings.

Here we have one of the worst hitters in baseball history, a symbol of the post-Mays era, a player who was booed so much by San Francisco fans that he once took the field with «BOO» stitched on the back of his jersey, and one of my favorite players as an adolescent.

It's the highest ERA from any pitcher with more than 50 innings in baseball history.

It was a fast, subtle knuckleball that was without a lot of peers in baseball history.

Doc Medich, the Milwaukee pitcher, had walked Rickey Henderson on four straight balls in the third inning of the Brewers» game with the Oakland A's last Friday night in County Stadium, and now, reluctantly, he stood to become a part of baseball history.

There are more teams contending on this date than any in baseball history.

It paved the way for the Royals to go ahead and hire the best named first base coach in baseball history, Rusty Kuntz.

He took over a Tigers team that would have one of the worst seasons in baseball history, and his job was to rebuild.

«We share the same colors and rich, storied baseball history that stretches from Musial and Williams, to Molina and Pedroia.

Even Tony Gwynn was a.267 hitter with two strikes, and that's just about the best in baseball history.

The Dodgers were reportedly mulling a Matt Kemp / Clayton Kershaw package, which would have been something like a worst - case scenario... except they would have had one of the best hitters in baseball history to help soften the blow.

Eventually the prize would go to the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., to join other great talismans of baseball history under their domes of glass — among them, Roger Maris's 61st homer and Babe Ruth's 714th and last home run, each with the name of the retriever included.

Because no one remembers anything on the Internet from before last year, and because I ran out of ideas somewhere in 2013, allow me to remind you of one of the funniest stadium giveaways in baseball history.

After one of the most woeful over -.500 seasons in recent baseball history, the Nationals wanted to impress.

He was Lincecum - sized, but he threw hard and had one of the better curveballs in baseball history.

Even though Hamilton didn't have the worst contract on his team, he still had one of the worst contracts in baseball history.

Sanchez has had issues throwing strikes and missing bats for most of his professional career, and Hutchison had some of the freakiest home / road splits in baseball history.

Thanks to Kostya Kennedy for writing the truth about Bill Buckner, the most unjustly accused man in baseball history.

He's been suspended a full season for performance - enhancing drugs, maligned in the media ever since he first signed the richest contract in baseball history in 2000 and has somehow been even more under the microscope since joining the New York Yankees before the 2004 season.