Sentences with phrase «at bat for»

We have nearly 40 years of experience and knowledge when it comes to life insurance, which can go a very long way, and nothing beats having a career insurance broker at bat for you when trying to get you the best no medical exam term life insurance rates available.

Trust me I am at bat for this community and game / franchise I love.

If PAT lasts 20 minutes, your team will be at bat for only about 10 minutes.

# 16 Clarence (Ace) Parker PORTSMOUTH Five - sport star at Woodrow Wilson High; in college and pro football halls of fame; hit a home run in first big league at bat for Philadelphia A's in 1937.

Bruce Edgar, at bat for New Zealand, now faced not only Botham but also an almost palpable wave of emotion from the crowd, and cricket buffs will debate for years the effect that had on him.

(Previously Durocher moved Thomson from centerfield to left to free up at bats for 20 - year - old Willie Mays.)

Not exact matches

While Oliver and the federal government play coy and bat their eyelashes at Asia, the United States remains the closest, easiest and most appealing market for Canadian oil.

This may seem a little easier to do in a game that tracks at - bats and hits and runs than in your industry, but every business needs to develop effective and relatively frictionless ways to keep score for everyone's benefit and also to establish and implement these criteria at every level and for everyone in the business.

The ping of an aluminum baseball bat is not a common sound at Pahokee High School, a place far more known for it's tradition of producing top pro and college football players.

We really appreciate that you actually looked at our situation objectively and went to bat for us.

By all means take a swing at «Panama vs. Costa Rica» — but be ready to trade the bat for a magnifying glass as soon as you figure out exactly what kind of weather, scenery, population, infrastructure, cost of living, and real estate prices make up your ideal location.

20 At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live» Isaiah 2:12 - 17

Now, as Nagel argues, this is not the sort of question that you can answer by looking at a few examples (bats for Nagel, Christians for us) and pointing and saying, «Well, being a bat (or a Christian) is like this.»

We would never consider using a corpse to try and forge a religious artifact in this day and age, but in the dark ages there were many people who wouldn't bat an eye at killing a peasant to matched the image they wanted for Jesus, ensuring the body was properly coated with blood and oils, and wrapping the body tightly in the shroud to try and produce the desired image.

They might combine for 500 at - bats of 90 OPS + misery this year.

Blackmon — great hitter with now more RBI potential — perfect slot for him at # 3 Arenado — he is the no brainer # 4 hitter on this team CarGo — # 5 suits his hitting style perfectly Iannetta — good plate discipline and works the count — plus has power — nice # 6 option Parra — fits nice at # 7 or # 8 Desmond — puts a speed / pop bat towards the end of the line up — either # 7 or # 8

I'll guess that it would have been far easier for Hinch, at least when it came to PR and fan frustration, to limit Gomez's at - bats until he stumbled into some sort of hot streak.

This might delay Dahl, Tapia, and Tauchman for one more year, but all will get steady at bats and playing time in AAA to start the year.

The camera crew panned on Andre Ethier in the dugout for quite a bit during Forsythe's at - bat, as he was putting in eye drops and standing, and then there was no one deck for the Dodgers.

Ralph Green III is enormous and as good as anybody at batting down passes at the line, while end Robert McCray III did manage 5.5 TFLs for himself.

Maybe Freeland was pulled a bit too early — but the guy he was pulled for had crushed him in his two previous at bats.

yikes 3B — not much luck for McMahon yet — starting to get some at bats, just need results now LF — Parra being Parra....

The last at - bat Eddie Robinson ever took for the Indians was in October 1948.

I can't believe that I'm advocating for fewer at - bats from a player who hit 25 homers last year, but considering this is the organization that let Chris Carter walk, they know what I'm talking about.

Other than Mike Trout (193 OPS +) and Andrelton Simmons (111 OPS +), every single one of their position players to take an at - bat for them this year is a below - average hitter, according to adjusted OPS.

At the plate, she led the team with a.460 batting average, contributed 36 RBI and tied Beaudin for the most home runs with 10.

He hit quite well too, with four homers in 62 at - bats and will receive a World Series ring for his contributions during the season.

The top half of the 10th would pass and Team Rosen would record a 3rd out to head into their at - bats for the bottom of the inning.

Hitting that double against Monte Vista was par for the course for Novitske, who led the team in batting average at.400 thru April.

Gabe Krause, who was 4 for 4 while batting and also had a Home Run, led Team Stotter at the dish.

The workshop included a trip to a Rockies — Red Sox game at Fenway Park and a three - part assignment: tape a stand - up introduction, interview a player in the seats and jostle for position during batting practice to grab a big leaguer for questions.

Even at age 40 Edmonds showed he's still a threat from the left side, batting.276 /.342 /.504 in a part - time role for the Brewers and the Reds.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

That final grasp of a lead didn't last long, though, as in the very next at - bat Judge doubled to left field that (thanks to some interference by a grabby, leaning fan) didn't get back to the infield in time to make a play at the plate to get Jacoby Ellsbury (running for Headley) out.

Except we have a challenger this year in Giancarlo Stanton, who has 27 home runs in just 186 at - bats, good for a 1186 OPS.

Indeed, Conine didn't have a single at bat in three years of college ball, but his ascent is all the more remarkable because he grew up in Rialto, Calif., with a passion for racquetball, not baseball.

Inside the suitcase were four boxes of the special baseballs, a dozen per box and numbered 1 through 48, to be used only for McGwire's at bats.

Except Clifton himself fumbled at the MTSU 16, and the ball got batted around a bit before another Arkansas State player fell on it for a touchdown, 98 yards or so from where Middle Tennessee's Tucker maybe caught the ball a few moments earlier.

With Bobby Grich in traction because of a bad back, slick - fielding journeyman Mario Guerrero took over at shortstop for the Angels and batted.481.

Redmond also played for the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians, hitting.287 /.342 /.358 in 2264 at - bats over a 13 - year career.

«If it's a big home run or if I'm frustrated because I couldn't connect in my previous at - bats or if I drive in important runs for my team, I might do it,» he said.

Since intentional walks often come in high leverage situations, that brief pause to the game while they throw the four pitches has always got me super pumped for the next at bat and really sold how much of a threat the other team thought the current batter was compared to the next one — making it so much sweeter when the next guy defied the odds and got a hit anyway.

Everyone's argument for why it isn't important is that it always leads to the same outcome outside some crazy outside chance, but I've always thought it really added to the tension of the next at bat regardless of that.

It's not unusual for a batter to run to the clubhouse VCR after one of his at bats.

Brett has two homers and 13 runs baited in — one for every five at bats — and has helped himself by driving home teammates in nine of 20 starts.

Transgressions: Yelling at opponents for breaking different unwritten rules that include, but are not limited to: flipping bats, being mad at just missing a pitch down the middle, staring at home runs, running the bases too slowly, popping gum incorrectly, preferring creamy peanut butter, looking like maybe thinking about staring at a home run one day.

The Suarez and Schebler injuries have hurt, but it's possible — possible — that Joey Votto won't hit like Mat Latos for the entire year, and the rest of the lineup should shape up with enough at - bats.

«And on the next at bat he may hook a pitch that's two inches outside for a home run.»

At El Segundo (Calif.) High School he batted over.400 as a centerfielder and pitcher, but only the Red Sox saw a big - league future for him on the mound.

If Wade wasn't swinging for the fences every at bat, maybe he would get more hits.