Sentences with phrase «at bat in»

The Oakland A's were able to assess players based on thousands of times at bat in similar conditions.

For example, the drawing of Jackie Robinson's captures the late baseball great at bat in his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, while that of artist Georgia O'Keefe shows her in the midst of painting one of her trademark flowers in full bloom.

And the rub for those scouting signs of the bat pandemic's spread: «You can not distinguish those [benign fungi] from white - nose syndrome just by looking at the bat in the cave.»

Plus the whole starting steroids in High School means he never took a single untainted at bat in his career.

It was Pignatano's final at bat in the big leagues.

The guy ended up on the DL before he even took an at bat in spring training.

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.

His rating system is not concerned with pitching or fielding or the relative cleverness of managers; it is made solely to evaluate a player at bat in the clutch.

The Blue Jays think he can, but in 785 at bats at Syracuse, their Triple A club, in 1978,»79 and»80 he hit just.239, the same figure he had in 419 at bats in the bigs before this season.

Still, employment won't come easy for a 37 - year - old DH who whiffed every 3.4 at bats in 2001, who was arrested last week on charges stemming from a nightclub brawl and who has coursed through eight of the 14 American League franchises over the past eight years.

Not exact matches

In The Circle, Eggers doesn't so much take his best swing at technology as ignore its pitches entirely and chase after it with his bat.

Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

In his third at bat he got hit by a pitch, but was later doubled off first base when he wandered a little too far from the bag on a line drive.

In his first at bat he struck out looking.

Whereas most hitters would send a ball dribbling into the infield on a broken bat, Harper instead lifted his a whopping 406 feet over the wall in right - center at Citifield.

In March of this year he launched Stocksy as a co-op on an agrarian model, one that pays contributors 50 % off the bat and then pays dividends at the end of the year, divesting 90 % of its profits.

But the promise of the new rules is that entrepreneurs like Regina, who don't live in charmed places like Menlo Park and Manhattan, or have friends at Facebook, now have more alternatives, more potential swings of the bat.

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.

«They're beating the cars with metal bats,» the singer Courtney Love posted on Twitter from an Uber car in Paris at a time of clashes between the company and taxi drivers in 2015.

I feel that two - piece safety razors do a better job in general at aligning the blade right off the bat.

A second woman accused in a baseball bat attack at a Lauderdale Lakes shopping center is in jail Saturday night on $ 7,500 bond after turning herself in to authorities Friday.

Plus: Watch a video of what might be his final at - bat in Seattle.

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If there is an uncertain future, at the very least, put in money that you could flush down the toilet and not bat an eye about.

I don't know you Julie, but I heard the exact term «bat - shit crazy» in reference to you from at least 3 of the men in emergent.

But when we see this happening to a man named Jesus in our Bible, and because we know that Jesus is God, we Christians don't even bat an eye at it.

It's like saying that, while Vlad may have been a pretty bad guy who impaled his enemies by ramming poles up their wazoos, that doesn't mean that we should believe that he could turn into a bat at will and didn't cast reflections in mirrors.

When he died he weighed sixty pounds, the paper says, and I go out of my way to drive by the address where his brother locked him in the closet, wondering at the blue door, the flower boxes, wondering where the fury started, how early and how hidden the first bruise awaking like a bat, dark wings....

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.

When your playing a silly game with a bat and ball you bring him out, you thank him when you move a pig skin across a line, you stamp his name on my currency, you tell my children about him in our public schools, you trot him out like a prized pig at a fair anytime something good or bad or even mediocre happens, and even when you stub your toe.

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Murphy would give us a second RH bat off the bench with Valaika with some power, and give a bit more flexibility with Wolters by carrying a 3rd C. Tauchman could go back to AAA to get some steady at bats / playing time to contribute more in the second half.

Things slowed down considerably after that, as Seager drew a walk in a nine - pitch at - bat, which brings up Justin Turner.

He needs at - bats, and the Astros need to remember that the upside of a Tony Kemp or Derek Fisher in the absolute best - case scenario are akin to a standard Carlos Gomez season.

As far as I can tell, neither one of them had an at - bat in college.

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.

He probably isn't looking too hard after embarrassing himself like that, really, and he certainly wouldn't get another chance to accumulate 500 at - bats in a season.

Tim Lincecum has the most at - bats without a homer of anyone who's played in 2016.

It does mean that we can say things like, «Pfft, if you make Ichiro a player - manager until he's 52 and give him 400 at - bats every year, he could break Rose's record in the majors, too.»

Dahl and Tapia start the year in AAA getting a lot of at bats to start the year and steady playing time.

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.

In two seasons with the Class A Oneonta Yankees and one with the Class A Tampa Yankees, Chambliss got 84 at bats.

Then, in the space of two games during the»77 World Series, Reggie turned all of Yankee Stadium into his own monument when he hit four home runs in four consecutive at bats.

So, you might as well put away your plans to calculate whether A-Rod has enough at - bats left in him over the next two years to surpass Barry Bonds on the all - time homer list, because if he's feeling good and he's close enough, he just might try to squeeze 2018 in there before he goes.

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

His statistics would have been impressive in Double - A at that age, but he showed preternatural bat control in Triple - A and hit.283 /.351 /.402 in the majors.

Sanchez is on pace to have 53 home runs in his first 600 major league at - bats.

But he'll likely be put in a lineup spot where he'll help his team more and get additional at - bats.