Sentences with phrase «niekro knuckleball»

«There's so much more to life than baseball,» says famed knuckleball pitcher Tom Candiotti.

Dickey spoke about possibly being traded by the Mets, the day - to - day grind in the major leagues and how the knuckleball saved his career.

The Astros had a backup catcher throw knuckleballs for them on Tuesday night.

Best knuckleball?

«I got Doug Mirabelli for my interview, so I asked him how he became the league's premier knuckleball catcher,» says Todd Simpson (above, interviewing, and in action), who spent 10 years as an NHL enforcer.

When he wasn't allowing knuckleball shots by Jeff Carter to go in with his team only down one goal, or bus - chucking his teammates after the game, he was trying to chop down an oak tree.

If Eric Hosmer doesn't get that pitch — if he gets a cement mixer of a slider, floating up there like a knuckleball, and pops it up — maybe everything's different.

«He was gracious but explained it was by default since Tim Wakefield is the [big leagues»] only knuckleball pitcher.

And he throws a knuckleball now.

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

He looked around for the big flexible mitt he used to catch knuckleballs and discovered that Gary Gentry, a pitcher what's more, had swiped it, leaving Silvestri with a regular catcher's glove, which is not the best piece of equipment with which to catch a long drive.

The puck may be standing on end, a no - chance proposition for the goalie, the shot following the flighty course of a knuckleball — at 90 miles per hour.

And this year he has pulled a low - and - inside Phil Niekro knuckleball for a homer; hit a high - and - tight fastball past Steve Carlton into centerfield to knock in a run in a 6 - 0, four - hit shutout of the Phillies; and, in another complete - game win, a five - hit shutout of the Mets, he got an RBI on a groundout after New York Pitcher Charlie Puleo had walked the Padres» No. 8 hitter intentionally.

They just sit there and spam knuckleballs over and over again and you just have to hope the computer decides to hang one (which admittedly is how much knuckleballs work in real life too).

In the first week of the season the graphic was only a minor annoyance, but soon it will drive us mad as we find out for the 316th time that Tim Wakefield has thrown another 68 mph knuckleball for the Boston Red Sox.

«It's a knuckleball with speed,» former Capitals goalie Olie Kolzig says.

Canucks forward Jannik Hanson was just looking to dump the puck in the zone and get a line change, and next thing you know, his knuckleball drops down and catches Rask sleeping.

Out of desperation he learned to throw a knuckleball, and 24 years later, at age 45, he has 202 major league wins.

«The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.»

There is actually a bit more to the story, however, since sometimes players will strike balls so as to give them very little spin — the equivalent of a knuckleball in baseball.

In addition, the researchers determined that «the optimally hit curveball will travel farther than both the fastball and knuckleball, because of beneficial topspin on the pitched curve ball that is enhanced during impact with the bat.»

60 Minutes Sports, Season 2013, Episode 5: R.A. Dickey describes how he throws it, but it takes science to explain why his knuckleballs do what they do.

Plus, R.A. Dickey sheds some light on the secret of the knuckleball and an in - depth look at the World Darts Championship.

The emergence of knuckleball phenom R.A. Dickey probably contributed, as that would have been what Crash (now a manager) would teach Nuke to keep him from being out of baseball entirely.

A supposedly washed up pitcher, Dickey developed the knuckleball (a very unique pitch that is almost impossible to master and even harder -LSB-...]

A witty and sometimes surreal sci - fi comedy, Men in Black is a wild knuckleball of a movie that keeps dancing in and out of the strike zone.

Leon's first baseman spent his mornings taking online courses through the Florida Virtual School, the knuckleball pitcher was taking a «dual enrollment» English class through the community college, and the left - handed pro prospect had enrolled in a financial management course at a local college (in case he was drafted).

Sure, I can throw a knuckleball.

He played for a long time, won a lot of games, but he was the kind of pitcher who, as knuckleball pitchers tend to be, are invited on the roster.

To stretch the sports analogy, you can't seem to hit the knuckleball: http://theoilconundrum.blogspot.com/2013/03/stochastic-analysis-of-log-sensitivity.html The ball is moving and fluttering while it moves, but is not going to reverse direction unless it meets a bat head on.

There can be personal problems, financial problems, a death or any one of those knuckleballs life continually throws at us all.