Sentences with phrase «at bats before»

Check out last year's World Series MVP: David Freese had zero postseason at bats before 2011.

«With all of my accomplishments as a hitter [he went hitless in his first 57 major league at bats before smashing a double last season], I've done things that no one has done in a while.»

Not exact matches

The MLB at - bat app will now have augmented reality capabilities on the iPhone 8, giving baseball fans access to more action, data and stats than ever before.

McMahon goes to AAA to get some consistent at bats and find his timing before coming up later to contribute.

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.

One of them (two if you count his show of force in batting practice before the event) even managed to ping off the roof as if he were hitting balls at his local indoor batting cage.

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

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.

Chelsea finished 10th in the league before Chelsea took over — and the only «new» players he got were: Victor Moses (who nobody thought was actually a good player), Marcos Alonso (thought to be an average player who had flopped at Sunderland), David Luiz (PSG flop, was being kicked out because Marquinhos took his spot), and Kante (very good signing)(and Bats I guess).

You simply can not forge a title winning defence throwing Chambers in the deep end straight off the bat, Monreal at CB NEVER played there before, and as admirable as Bellerin was as far as break - out seasons go was electric going forward but in my opinion had bad games defensively.

(The laceration in»67 preserved his freshman status by shelving him just before he exceeded 90 at bats.)

Plesac, who had held lefthanded hitters to a.167 average before this at bat, threw a slider that didn't slide, and Everett crushed it for a game - winning home run.

Get the temptation to come back with an ailing wrist out of the way for FF and force him to rest it for at least a week before even picking a bat up.

«Hey,» Black told him at the batting cage before Game 1, «you're going to get pitches to hit.»

Playing for his hometown team, Brinson had an eye - opening camp, batting.328 in Cactus League play, but was batting.131 with 20 strikeouts before Mattingly rested him for the Marlins» two - game interleague series at New York.

If Bryce Harper did half of the things Ortiz gets away with, he'd get drilled by a pitch before he left the on - deck circle in his next at - bat.

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.

Before his arrival in Oaklandhe never had more than 25 straight at bats as a big leaguer.

Carlos Pe √ ± a, 1B, Devil Rays The 29 - year - old hasshown bursts of power before — 45 jacks in 741 at bats with the Tigers in 2004and» 05 — but he went deep only once in the bigs last year, when he spent mostof the season in the Yankees» and Red Sox» farm systems.

Hatcher helped Erstad simplify his swing and got him to wave the bat below his waist before the pitcher delivers, which keeps him from tensing at the plate.

Sure, it was in just two at - bats because he's walked a few times and didn't start until Game 3, but it sounded pretty impressive before I gave you all that context.

Spithorst was good enough as a sophomore to allow Dylan Carlson to move to the outfield before being drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft by the Cardinals, and continued to anchor the defense at first base while swinging a mighty bat.

That makes dealing him now that much more difficult, as teams aren't going to want to pay for the Machado who can produce Gold Glove defense while providing one of the best bats at this position when they can argue that he most recently was not that guy — and that on top of not knowing if he's going to be around for only a year before bolting as a free agent.

The chances of England batting better at the European U21 tournament seems to be much better than before.

While baby still enjoys mouthing and sucking on her hands and feet, she might start interacting in new ways with her toys, such as pushing at those dangling before her, or batting at them.

At the core of his narrative of spiritual redemption are his acts of violence as an angry young man — stabbing, rock throwing, brick hurling and baseball bat beating — that preceded Carson's sudden transformation into the composed figure who stands before voters today.

«Standing for election at any level with Mr Bolton as leader after all this would be rather like sending your opening batsmen to the crease only for them to find, the moment the first balls are bowled, that their bats have been broken before the game by the team captain.»

Just before the first pitch at the new Yankee Stadium was thrown, the bat that Babe Ruth used to hit the first home run in the old Yankee Stadium was placed across home plate.

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

Long before I became a Catholic, I had to laugh at a certain kind of «all - natural» hippie, who would be meticulous about her diet, yet not bat an eye at the chemical and hormonal torture, or otherwise unnatural activities, involved in birth control.

Of course, the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy was mapped out long before Shaun wielded his trusty cricket bat at our screens.

Director Kevin McDonald -LRB-» The Last King of Scotland») wields a very interesting aesthetic right off the bat in his tale of teens at war, but How I Live Now can't escape the feeling of being a mash - up of a hundred other stories you've seen before.

Before long he's back at Wayne HQ, checking out Lucius Fox's (Morgan Freeman) latest bat - inspired inventions, and also checking out new love interest / Wayne board - member Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard).

Next at bat was the 2015 Scion iM, a compact hatchback based on the Toyota Auris, which debuted just one year before Toyota shuttered its struggling youth - oriented brand.

AC: Why don't we talk about, maybe right off the bat, looking at a return on investment or R.O.I., before you even get into college.

Before becoming a veterinarian, she completed a Master's degree in Biology at Eastern Michigan University, where she studied the ecology of bat species on the islands of Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

But talking of Pong, WWMnA also points out Pong Mythos, which is an entire exhibition «about one ball, two bats, a playing field and our situation in a digital world», and opens in Stuttgart next month, before making a stop at the gigantic consumer / trade Game Convention (think - a European E3!)

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

They sound so easy at first, but before you know it you'll be fighting bats in the school ventilation system for a vampire.

Then at the same time (or have DK hit it a little bit before) have Ness swing the bat and DK use the B on the bag.

Luckily, those bats are only likely to be in - flight around dawn and dusk at wind speeds between 2 and 5 meters per second — so Ecotricity and RSPB implemented a mitigation plan by which the turbine is shut off for half an hour before and after dusk, whenever wind speeds are below 7 meters per second.

Many bats remain at their feeding sites until just before dawn when they return to the day roost.

I'm no fan of the jurisprudence of now - retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, but Stevens was in attendance at the 1932 World Series game where Babe Ruth hit his famous «called shot,» and Stevens says Ruth definitely pointed to the stands with his bat before hitting it.