Sentences with phrase «ball hitters»

«It's a park made for fly - ball hitters with power to the alleys, and that's what he is.»

They are first ball hitters and they walk up to the plate looking to take a cut at that first pitch.

To Peter Lonard of Australia, the unquestioned king of the low - ball hitters, the words Down Under have more than one meaning

Put him # 2 with a focus on contact — he is a fly ball hitter and one of the fastest guys on the team, thus limiting GiDP and adding some potential pop to the # 2 spot.

I'm a curve ball pitcher and I just don't believe there is such a thing as a good curve ball hitter.

I don't believe there is such a thing as a good curve ball hitter... I mean that no one can consistently hit the really good breaking stuff.

Pitchers should be able to exploit him with fastballs up (he's a dead low - ball hitter) and hard stuff on his hands, the way they exploit the mechanics of Jason Heyward's swing.

CarGo isn't a ground ball hitter.

That will help Davalillo, since he is a fast - ball hitter.

It looks like she is probably a low - ball hitter, so you pitch her up in the zone, too.

You look at Barry Bonds, he choked up, and he was a low - ball hitter.

Not exact matches

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.

He showed up, threw more than 200 innings, didn't walk anyone, kept the ball in the park and kept hitters supremely and eternally uncomfortable.

Because he does not hit the ball as far as the likes of Palmer and Nicklaus, Marr must play his approaches and putts with infinite finesse to keep abreast of the big hitters.

Did you watch Mike Piazza's flat, violent swing on a ball right down the middle, jabbing it 430 feet to right - center where another power hitter would have been lucky to pull it 400 feet?

Mikolas has looked terrible so far, not because he can't get his pitches to work (well, partially), but because the pitches that worked in Japan, a largely contact league, don't work against patient MLB hitters that aren't looking to foul the ball away like they do in Japan.

Sure, the whole thing is you're trying to get the hitter out with a baseball, but if you can fool him before you even throw the ball you've got a better chance.

First hit: Mahtook First walk: Cabrera First run: Mahtook First RBI: Castellanos First home run: None (if I have to pick somebody, I'll say Cabrera) First strikeout (Tigers hitter): Martin First reliever used: Saupold First pitch velocity (mph): 91 First pitch result (strike / ball): Strike Game result (Tigers win / loss): Win Tigers runs scored: 6 Attendance: 41,299

That's why you see a lot of great hitters take a strike on two strikes and no balls, or two strikes and one ball, or three and two, because they've been fooled.

Both teams have some people who can hit the ball, and plenty of people to set those hitters up.

They had a weird stretch where they decided that letting the opposing hitters put the ball in play was going to work.

He is a.260 hitter and is learning to settle for frequent and accurate slap hits (curving line drives, like hooked golf shots), rather than the occasional long ball he hit in Visalia.

«Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can't figure out ways to get out of trouble, «says Palmer.

Here is a ball club with leadership and spirit, a great hitter, a tight infield, good run production — and the memory of how tough they made it on the Braves last year.

He walked him three times in all, and, significantly, didn't issue a base on balls to another Oakland hitter.

Umpires and hitters don't want the grief involved in retraining their judgment of what is a ball and a strike.

AN APRIL 1986 GAME WAS N'T ANYTHING SPECIAL UNTIL THE 23 - YEAR - OLD ROCKET BEGAN BLOWING THE BALL PAST SEATTLE HITTERS — AND STRUCK OUT A RECORD 20

Martinez, a 25 - year - old Montreal Expos righthander, has a natural sailing motion on his fastball that carries the ball toward the hands of righthanded hitters.

But no one — not even a Bob Feller or a Herb Score — can consistently throw the ball past big league hitters.

Because it has become harder to throw the ball past hitters and because mistakes on the inside half of the plate often become home runs, not just singles and doubles, pitchers nibble maddeningly off the lower and outside boundaries of the strike zone.

But under the rules all he can do is declare the runner out for being hit by a batted ball and put the hitter on first with a single... I hope I'm around when some real belligerent big league manager lets his boys try this dodge.

Once a singles hitter, Thompson has become a real long - ball threat.

«I took the ball and said to the hitters, «Hit it or sit down.»

If you have a great idea about defensive shifts or a lineup filled with switch - hitters who can spray the ball all over the field, that's super.

Most hitters wouldn't be, which is why get - it - in breaking balls in the middle of the zone have a nice, safe home at the beginning of the at - bat.

He was a master of slapping the ball around the field, though, and considering the Yankees» sub-optimal defense, it was a terrifying matchup for someone in the middle of a no - hitter.

The consensus in baseball is that most pitchers are struck by a ball that was pitched outside against a hitter who has shortened his swing in an attempt to drive the ball back where it was pitched.

anything but a win will make 4th place an increasingly distant goal... to be honest we should be able to beat this lot woy has tightened them up but hardly turned them in to big hitters but i do nt think wenger can motivate the team anymore so its all about whether players show up on the night... wilshere needs to get on the ball more partnered with elneny who is probably the most reliable of a hapless riumvirate, kosalinac and debuchy given roles in a back 4... if sanchez wants to showcase his skills i can see a 2 1 victory... otherwise could be looking at another embarassing loss... pathetic that we have fallen to this level of speculation

Baltimore manager Ray Miller believes that the distance from home plate to the mound is too short in this age of bigger and stronger hitters whose batted balls travel as fast as 110 mph.

Take «L.A.,» the name for Duke's trademark quick hitter, in which center Shelden Williams sets a ball screen for the point guard (in this case, Paulus) near the top of the key.

«Most hitters, even power hitters, would hook that ball foul into the leftfield stands.

First hit: Candelario First walk: Mahtook First run: Castellanos First RBI: Iglesias First home run: none First strikeout (Tigers hitter): Martin First reliever used: VerHagen First pitch velocity (mph): 93 First pitch result (strike / ball): strike (looking) Game result (Tigers win / loss): WIN Tigers runs scored: 4 Attendance: 33,500

Taveras: Plus arm, better coordination and bat to ball, better raw power, advanced approach, switch hitter, Martinez: Half a grade faster, left handed.

People often say that baseball is the most literary of sports — it's that game in which balls carom off walls, pitchers flirt with no - hitters and batters spit on outside sliders — and that may be true.

The American League long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastballs.

You've got to get the ball in the fairway here, and Bubba's distance isn't much of an advantage on the par - 5s, three of which are gettable in two for both long and short hitters.

The slow and steady three - year drip of the decline in Arrieta's sinker, both in terms of velocity (95.3, 94.5, 92.2) and whiff percentage (7.75, 8.96, 6.15), as well as the decline in how often he goes to his slider / cutter (30 %, 19 %, 14 %) and the increase in how often hitters take it for balls (30 %, 35 %, 40 %).

Keuchel, who had relied on elite control and getting hitters to put the ball on the ground in 2014 and 2015, saw his numbers worsen across the board in 2016.

Fans may realize that hitters benefit from the mile - high air, but they may not realize how lower air density adversely affects pitchers — specifically their breaking balls.

However, according to ESPN's Park Factor, Great American Ball Park is just the 12th most hitter friendly stadium this season and has ranked 8th, 12th, 18th, 7th and 7th, respectively, over the past five seasons.