Sentences with phrase «as a pitcher»

They can be as simple as a pitcher of lemonade with some vodka or something more complex like a rum punch.

Instead of digging through drawers to find your cooking utensils, set them out in a pretty container such as a pitcher or crock.

As a pitcher on the baseball team he has been a disappointment, barely worth the effort it took to sign him to a scholarship in the spring of 1974.

I studied Communication Studies in college, and was awarded a full athletic scholarship in baseball as a pitcher.

I played pro basketball in 1953 and then went on to my best season as a pitcher.

The runner on first breaks for second as the pitcher delivers the ball to home.

As long as the pitcher can somehow work in three or four pitches in the 90 seconds before that, they'll get the eight they've always been entitled to.

He's been on the shelf as a pitcher all season due to an elbow injury.

... is on the roster as pitcher number 13.

As he joins a new team in high school, his confidence as a pitcher and a person grows.

I had to cheat a little with this one, taking some players who were drafted as pitchers out of high school but didn't sign.

Adam Dunn entered Tuesday's White Sox game against the Texas Rangers as a pitcher in the 9th inning with his team...

I'm pretty comfortable believing the pitchers who appeared in the Pacific League from 1992 to 2000 are, at the very least, as talented as the pitchers who appeared in the National League from 1963 to 1971.

Drafted as a pitcher by the San Francisco Giants (from the University of San Francisco) in the 2nd round of the 2001 draft, Jesse made his MLB debut on April 14, 2003.

«I was more scared of an ice bath than I was the first time I went into the chamber,» said Lafferty, who had plenty of icing experience as a pitcher and quarterback at Vacaville High and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Frank Potestio graduated from UC Riverside with a degree in Sociology and was named to the All - American team as a pitcher.

Issued in May, «Untitled» by Kara Walker was produced in an edition of 1,000 and can be used as a pitcher, a vase or displayed as an art object.

Adam Dunn entered Tuesday's White Sox game against the Texas Rangers as a pitcher in the 9th inning with his team down 15 - 0.

The star of this film is a new character, Gus Cantrell (Bakula, Color of Night), at the end of of a middling pro career as a pitcher beseeched by his old friend Roger Dorn (Bernsen, The Great White Hype) to be the manager of his Triple - A minor league team, the Buzz, using his skills on imparting knowledge to the up - and - comers to mold the next superstars.

Described as some kind of «spiritual sequel» to Linklater's Dazed & Confused, this film is set in 1980 about an «incoming freshman experiencing his first weekend in college as a pitcher on the school's nationally ranked baseball team.»

Maybe lineups should be viewed in light of possible defensive shift mixes as much as pitcher handedness and nominal position, especially with starters going fewer innings (making platoon splits against the opposing starting pitcher less important).

Noah Buschel's compact, impeccably performed «The Phenom,» starring a soulful Johnny Simmons as the pitcher, Paul Giamatti as the therapist, and Ethan Hawke as the albatross father, opens mid-therapy session.

There is a fridge with bottles of water and cans of soda as well as pitchers of juice.

With an unproven baseball washout at QB (Weeden, who turns 28 in October, spent five years in the minors as a pitcher) and no clear No. 1 receiver last summer, Oklahoma State was tabbed for a fifth - place finish in the Big 12 South, allowing them to catch early opponents off guard.

It seems possible that the baseball being more lively has decimated this strategy, with Archer, Matt Moore, Jake Odorizzi and Drew Smyly all giving up home runs at an unexpected rate, sending their ERAs through the roof even as the pitchers maintain stellar strikeout - to - walk ratios.

They appeal to his status as the Pitcher of the»80s, or his performance in Game 7, or his tenacity, or that gleam in his eye that made you feel like you were going to be alright, or the smell of his aftershave as he cradled the rest of the team in his arms, or... whatever they feel like appealing to.

«She came back in her junior year and really blossomed as a pitcher.»

Not bad for a guy who was a 58th - round draft pick out of UCLA six years ago as a pitcher.

Two questions are invariably asked of a good - hitting pitcher: Why not use him elsewhere in the lineup between starts; and if he fails as a pitcher, why not play him elsewhere full - time?

Slightest glimpse of ball or fingers as pitcher assumes grip and goes into wind - up can tip off the opposing team what to expect next.

«What it takes to succeed as a pitcher now is so much more refined than it was 10 years ago,» says St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan.

IF A WOMAN were to reach the majors as a pitcher, it would almost certainly be as a knuckleballer.

A. All were 20 - game winners as pitchers and all were noted for their hitting ability.

They say that a pitcher's job is to avoid baserunners, and if you don't count those three walks, he's done just about as well in that regard as a pitcher can possibly do.

Erratic slugger Phil Plantier, who was signed away from Houston for $ 500,000, and former Padres first baseman Eddie Williams qualify as Detroit's only significant off - season free - agent additions — a rather admirable show of frugality for a franchise that in the last five years spent wildly on middling, past - their - prime free agents such as pitchers Tim Belcher and Mike Moore.

A good many millions of people have listened to Dizzy Dean in the years since he ceased subjecting baseball to internal stresses as a pitcher and began subjecting it to external strain as an interpreter and broadcaster.

Urias has as much talent as any pitcher in baseball.

It is Martinez's fastball, though, that measures his growth as a pitcher.

There are exceptions, such as Winfield, who was announced as a pitcher, only to make the majors two weeks later as an outfielder.

«At least he will become more famous as the pitcher who lost a no - hitter rather than just another pitcher who threw a no - hitter.»

By the end of the season, he would be named Defensive Player of the year in the state of Oregon, and go on to be drafted in the first round by the Kansas City Royals as a pitcher and first baseman.

The Angels have come up with one possible way to make sure they can get the best out of Ohtani as both a pitcher and a hitter.

Pitchers like Aaron Cook, Brett Anderson, Jorge De La Rosa, Jhoulys Chacin and Kyle Kendricks have fit the profile as pitchers who induce ground balls at rates above the league average, but I speculated that it would be very profitable to fade these types of pitchers at Coors Field.

Playing Experience: As a pitcher Jason's experience began locally and includes stops at every level from Granada Little League to the Major League Rosters for both the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.

He had been a 14 - year - old baseball prodigy with an 87mph fastball until the rotator - cuff injury ended his days as a pitcher.

The twins were pretty good athletes themselves, Pat having something of a future as a pitcher until he hurt his arm.

With the UCLA - bound Jenna in the outfield and teammates such as pitcher Nalani Scates and outfielder Alana Mendez, the Falcons had a great season in which they played in the NCS Div.

Making Kolb the standard bearer would be like starting the third baseman as pitcher in the final game of the World Series.

Victor Veltidi, Pearl River High School 1948, was First Team All County Football as an end, captain of the basketball team and was selected First Team All County as a pitcher.