Sentences with phrase «as 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.

Not exact matches

«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.

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.

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.

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.