Sentences with phrase «bad hitter»

But there's nothing to assume he's as bad a hitter as last year.

He just has to be a bad hitter instead of an awful hitter.

DANNY ESPINOSA is like Jimmy Rollins: He has enough power to make himself a bad hitter.

On deck is the Sox» worst hitter, a kid named Romney.

He was one of the worst hitters in baseball in that time period.

He is one of the worst hitters in baseball.

There was a dropped third strike that led to runs (but maybe shouldn't have), catcher's interference, an intentional walk to bad hitters, and an HBP with the bases loaded, and that was just the top of the fifth.

Not bad hitters, either.

Here we have one of the worst hitters in baseball history, a symbol of the post-Mays era, a player who was booed so much by San Francisco fans that he once took the field with «BOO» stitched on the back of his jersey, and one of my favorite players as an adolescent.

The problem with being a fan and watching Jake hit is that For 1 month, he's going to suck For 1 month, he's going to suck even worse and be the worst hitter in the league For 1 month, he's going to be on fire

He's been putting good at bats together and then you bench him in a favor of the worst hitter on the team?

One big issue is that you want to increase the PAs for the best hitters and reduce the PAs for the worst hitters.

To be fair, Yulieski Gurriel, a 33 - year - old first baseman who joined the team in 2016 after years in the Cuban league, is the worst hitter in this example, and he's a talented player.

Not exact matches

Some Marlins hitters will have worse seasons.

Small victories... SP — Bettis looked bad the first 3 innings — lacked command (recurring issue among SPs this season) and walked too many hitters (again recurring theme).

The Yankees have too many good hitters and will face too many bad pitchers to not have a good record.

His defense was so bad, that Baseball - Reference's WAR ranks his 140 OPS +, 25 - dinger season last year as the ninth-most valuable season of any hitter, just above Miguel Rojas, Darwin Barney, and Zack Greinke (as a hitter).

The Dodgers were reportedly mulling a Matt Kemp / Clayton Kershaw package, which would have been something like a worst - case scenario... except they would have had one of the best hitters in baseball history to help soften the blow.

Herzog's leadoff hitter, Vince Coleman (27 RBIs in 517 at bats), is so bad in that category that he will probably be the first player the Cards try to trade after the season.

The alternative is believing that these seven run - allowing outings are indicative of a brand - new Kimbrel, which kind of feels like writing off a hitter after a bad two weeks.

The situation was already bad, and Barfield's error didn't blow the game or the no - hitter.

To make matters worse, Arsenal, who have not won the Premier League since 2004, find themselves trailing Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City in this season's title race, while all the usual big - hitters have underperformed.

Five players came up to the plate in that inning, and the worst of those hitters made the final out.

O'Connor, a terrierlike man of 33 who was born in Galway, is another straight hitter who, though not producing any single round of great golf, had to complement Bradshaw's scoring by not having a single very bad round.

Not bad for a leadoff hitter.

WithoutCrawford and Longoria, two of their most dangerous hitters are Carlos Pe √ ± a, whobatted.236 in the first half, and outfielder Rocco Baldelli, who had beenthrough travails worse than a mere slump.

• IT SEEMS like the bad karma and equally lousy p.r. that came along with the hissy fit that Bubba Watson aimed at Steve Elkington during the Zurich Classic haven't humbled the Tour's longest hitter.

But slumps by three of the team's most consistent singles hitters — Chuck Hiller (down 53 points from 1962 to.223), Jim Davenport (off 45 points to.252) and Jose Pagan (a loss of 25 points to.234)-- hurt badly.

Even as good news started to come in — Rich Hill is set to make his Dodgers debut Wednesday, and Kershaw should be facing hitters soon as he works his way back to the mound — it was coupled with bad.

Oaten, formerly considered a big hitter in the Liberal Democrats and known throughout the Westminster village for his knife - edge 1997 win in Winchester, got the worst of it.

Two birthday marathons on TCM this week — Akira Kurosawa on Tuesday (one of a multiple mini-marathons leading up to his centennial birthday on the 23rd) with heavy hitters The Bad Sleep Well, High and Low and Red Beard and some lesser - known ones; then Ginger Rogers on Wednesday, mostly concentrating on her pre-code stuff, including 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933, as well as a bunch of other obscure ones that probably aren't quite «good» in the strictest sense of the word.

Two big - hitters from that country, Cristian Mungiu and Cristi Puiu, gave us films which anatomised the state of that country's ruling class and also hinted at signs of a poisonous Ostalgie: a feeling that things have not advanced since the era of Ceaușescu, and might be worse.

Granted, there are a few female heavy - hitters included in the show — Kiki Smith, Kara Walker, Janine Antoni, and Cindy Sherman, to name a few — but for the most part, Skin Fruit is a lesson in art market politics, the majority of which tends to focus on bad - boy works by the likes of Matthew Barney, Paul McCarthy, Takashi Murakami, Urs Fischer, Terence Koh, and Dan Colen, all of whom are included.