Sentences with phrase «at umpires»

The two boys starred in Little League, but Leo — because of his tendency to rail at umpires — watched the games from the family station wagon, parked across the street from the field.

The way that Cutch moped around through slumps and never was overly vocal, coupled with the way that Cole always seemed ticked off at umpires, his defense and the umpires, the team over the last two seasons didn't seem to have a leader on the field.

Cold, haughty and vigorously hostile, he bullies anyone who gets in his way, lobbing insults at umpires, openly mocking lesser opponents and snubbing greater ones.

I was outraged at the umpires» misapplication of their rules.

He glanced back at the umpire briefly, although the umpire had said nothing.

If that situation came up today, Williams would have wiggled four fingers at the umpire, and Gossage would have huffed for a few seconds.

When it comes to fair use, there's a fine line between «look at this GIF of a pitcher's new delivery because it is essential to this story» and «look at this umpire getting hit in the beans because it's funny.»

Not exact matches

Jon lives in Trabuco Canyon — yes, a homeowner — and when he's not fiddling with his trusty spreadsheet at work you can likely find him rooting for his beloved Anaheim Ducks or umpiring local lacrosse games.

As Jenell Williams Paris of Messiah College writes in her book The End of Sexual Identity, «Grounding sexual ethics in our humanity more than in contemporary sexual identity categories... comes at a cost to heterosexuals,» because «it puts them in the game as players instead of umpires.»

Coles has been forced to the national workplace umpire to prevent strike action breaking out at its food distribution centres across Australia's east, as a result of industrial unrest that started at a Coles warehouse in Melbourne yesterday.

Also this afternoon, Coles succeeded in getting an order from the national industrial umpire, Fair Work Australia, to prevent any further industrial action breaking out at either Goulburn or its Eastern Creek distribution centre in Sydney.

In an application to the national industrial umpire today, Coles successfully applied to stop unlawful industrial action by workers at its Goulburn food distribution centre.

Little Fred Patek, the 5» 4» shortstop of the Kansas City Royals, blew his low - level top recently at American League umpires, all of whom tower over the tiny shortstop.

Had the umpire done his homework, Tony Gwynn would never have been ejected in his ninth game as coach at San Diego State (SCORECARD, March 3).

I'm 5» 4» and the average player is maybe 6» 1», and yet these umpires stand at the same eye level all the time.

The only thing that changed with the Utley Rule is that umpires can now go back, look at the video and determine that a player like Bautista is unambiguously trying to disrupt the play.

ADA CA D5 Little League holds its annual rules clinics for managers / coaches and umpires at the Baseball Complex at American River College.

Even though that type of call isn't reviewable, Roberts convinced the umpires to at least convene, which is when they... reversed the call?

However, if we got rid of umpire complaining LL would lose over 33 % of the game thread comments so I say go at it.

But the Tigers had called a pitchout, and Fahey, the supposed pigeon, threw Henderson out at second — at least in the opinion of second base umpire Durwood Merrill.

Ruled by right - field umpire Fieldin Culbreth as a foul ball at the time, Orioles manager Buck Showalter asked for a review of the call, which was upheld.

Under a headline in The Sporting News that read: «Rules Experts Fire Broadside at Navy Critic,» James T. Gallagher, chairman of the Playing Rules Committee of Organized Ball, and Cal Hubbard, supervisor of American League umpires, sprang to the defense of the rule book.

But when Herzog and the rest of the Cards ranted on about the ninth - inning bad call at first base costing them Game 6 — the St. Louis Post-Dispatch chimed in by calling AL umpire Don Denkinger «Jesse James» — it was as if no umpire in World Series history had ever missed one before.

Don Wilson, Roberts's reliever, off whom Aaron had hit his 611th home run, said later that as he stood on the mound it crossed his mind just to keep on warming up indefinitely, shaking his head and saying, «No, not yet,» to the umpire until the night fell and the moon came up, and perhaps at 10:30 the next morning some sort of statute of limitations would run out the season and he would be able to pack up and go home, sore - armed but assuaged.

Last year Juan Marichal saw this activity, the plate umpire reaching in a special ball bag at his waist to introduce a special ball to the game, and not being aware of the procedure, Marichal felt that he was the victim of some odd plot, that perhaps the ball he would get from the umpire was going to pop in two and emit smoke as he gripped it for his screwball.

Frank Dascoli has been criticized and laughed at, but nearly everyone admits he is the best umpire in the National League

I prefer haptic indications * (a buzzer in the umpire's indicator that gives a short buzz for a ball and a long buzz for a strike — or if you want to incorporate the uncertainty at the edges of the zone, a short buzz for a ball and a longer buzz the higher the confidence that the pitch was a strike).

But the best is the enemy of the good; the most imperfect machine - vision system currently available would probably do a better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than human umpires do.

Glasnow shouldn't be at the whim of the umpire who doesn't feel like he has «earned» those calls on the edges.

That includes the breakdown of our public betting trends at all seven contributing sportsbooks, improved line graphs for all of our available sportsbooks, full injury reports, enhanced weather reports, detailed referee / umpire data, bet signals (including steam moves, reverse line movement, contrarian plays and best bets), and current lineups.

In the USA Today piece, West noted that he and Beltre are on OK terms at this point, so it doesn't look like the umpire will have to deal with any bad blood there on top of the suspension.

In case you're wondering what it's like having a pitch at 97 mph head in your direction, look no further than this video of an umpire presumably wearing a GoPro.

Might this still be true (if it ever were) at a time when league identities have been blurred by increased player movement, interleague play and the consolidation of umpires?

During Phog's early coaching days at Kansas a student sportswriter heard him umpiring a baseball game and promptly dubbed him «Foghorn.»

The umpires took a look at Bauer's fingers and agreed that yes, this was definitely gross and shouldn't be happening in a baseball game.

After beating Jurgen Zopp at Wimbledon, Ernests Gulbis had a weird / interesting conversation with a reporter about umpires.

At first base, he accepted the congratulations of Coach Ron Plaza, Umpire Joe West and Met First Baseman Willie Montanez.

Which brings us to the open - ended question at the end of an article: Do you prefer the umpires who don't like to think critically after issuing a warning, tossing pitchers and managers after the next HBP, regardless of the game situation?

Typically being a good over umpire means calling a very tight strike zone, and it will be interesting to see if that zone beings to expand at all in his third season.

Ryan Merrill then shot a single through, and that plated both Watson and Wanhanen, but not before an umpire review of Watson's slide at the plate.

It was treated as a live ball, however, and he's out at first since that kind of play isn't reviewable, and an appeal to the third base umpire didn't change the call.

Fires still smoldered at ground zero, and there was an eeriness about Yankee Stadium those nights that went beyond the metal detectors, the bomb - sniffing dogs, the Secret Service agent dressed as an umpire and the snipers on the roof.

SUSPENDED: For 10 days without pay at the start of the 1986 season and fined $ 500, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher JOAQUIN ANDUJAR, for an incident involving bumping and arguing with umpire Don Denkinger in the seventh game of the World Series.

At this stage, there's no word on just what those changes will be, but we know why they want to do it, thanks to Jon Morosi: the technology listed above is out there and is now part of how we watch the game, and MLB wants their umpires to adhere more closely to what everyone else is seeing.

Prop Bets «'' If there's one thing that can keep a generally apathetic group of football fans involved in a game in which they have absolutely no rooting interest, it's the prospect of winning some money / food / respect / opportunity to publicly humiliate a close personal friend on something as random as umpire knock - downs or who will make the first hyper - exaggerated first - down gesture (the line is running at 50:1 on Ochocinco, btw).

The breaking point seemed to come at 11 - 10, when Nadal appealed to the umpire's chair that he was being blinded by the sun setting over the sheen Wimbledon roof.

After giving up a game - tying grand slam to Toronto's George Bell in 1986, a frustrated Righetti took a new ball from the umpire and hurled it more than 300 feet over the rightfield fence at Exhibition Stadium.

Teams should not be allowed to stop the game for 30 seconds to get on the phone with a video guy to see if they should be reviewing a call only to go tell the umpires to take another couple of minutes to go look at the call.

As the pregame sportsmanship meeting at home plate took place between captains, coaches, umpires and school officials, both teams remained gathered in front of their dugouts.

Even the local umpiring crews get the opportunity to work a game at Raley Field, which can be just as special an experience for the men in blue as it is for the players on the field.