Sentences with phrase «american league pitchers»

Baseball purists argue that there's an unfair advantage based on ballpark since American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's rarely have the bench depth to install an above average designated hitter.

After all, American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's don't shell out top dollar for designated hitters.

Quiet Dick Hall can hit too — .454, to lead all American League pitchers.

Opponents batted.228 against the Blue Jays» righthander — the lowest mark of any American League pitcher.

• Dean Chance, former American League pitcher and possessor of a.066 lifetime batting average: «I wish I was still active in baseball.

Not exact matches

• Over his last two full seasons, Sutcliffe walked 200 batters, more than any other pitcher in the American League.

The five toughest pitchers to hit last season in each league (according to opponents» batting average) were all power guys: Al Leiter, Smoltz, Hideo Nomo, Brown and Curt Schilling in the National League and Juan Guzman, Roger Clemens, Hentgen, Kevin Appier and Alex Fernandez in the American Lleague (according to opponents» batting average) were all power guys: Al Leiter, Smoltz, Hideo Nomo, Brown and Curt Schilling in the National League and Juan Guzman, Roger Clemens, Hentgen, Kevin Appier and Alex Fernandez in the American LLeague and Juan Guzman, Roger Clemens, Hentgen, Kevin Appier and Alex Fernandez in the American LeagueLeague.

«Hitters disregard the inside corner so much that you can throw a pitch in the strike zone and they'll jackknife out of the way,» says one American League All - Star pitcher.

In the American League, which has adopted the DH, even the best - hitting pitchers do not bat.

Only 10 pitchers in the American League had ERAs of less than 4.00 last year.

The only bright spots were Pitcher Mike Caldwell, who won his 13th, and Gorman Thomas, whose four homers brought his season total to 23, tying him with teammate Larry Hisle and California's Don Baylor for second in the American League behind Boston's Jim Rice.

The Houston Astros made one change to their active roster for the American League Championship Series, adding pitcher Collin McHugh to their 25 - man group against the New York Yankees.

The bottom line is that they don't care that the 1987 season is opening without the American League's best pitcher and catcher and the National League's best player.

Both leagues set records (in a strike - shortened season, at that) for most pitchers used overall (starters and relievers combined): 290 in the National League and 295 in the American League.

While the average Joe bettor might be throwing a few bucks down on the Bronx Bombers and their new star pitcher, sharp bettors are hammering the defending American League champs.

The Rangers are in the American League, so if the worst thing that happens here is that Calhoun becomes a DH who makes the lives of opposing pitchers terrible, then they've done just fine.

The American League long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastLeague long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastleague than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastballs.

The no - no didn't bother us quite so much three years later, when that skinny pitcher, Bret Saberhagen, became the youngest American League Cy Young Award winner and World Series MVP.

Just last week he was the starting pitcher for the American League in the 2016 MLB All - Star Game.

Maybe the Royals were just tired of Josh Donaldson; pitchers across the American League sure are.

The right - hander, who turns 30 in February, won't get to hit as often with the designated hitter in the American League, but Gallardo is the active leader among pitchers with 12 career home runs.

Using a computer model to predict muscle fatigue, researchers simulated baseball games for 72 American League starting pitchers from the 2014 season.

In 2005, at the age of 32, then Los Angeles Angel Bartolo Colón won the American League Cy Young Award for best pitcher, one of professional baseball's top honors.