Sentences with phrase «ball pitcher»

In addition to Naylor, the Padres are receiving right - handed rookie ball pitcher Luis Castillo, according to Yahoo! Sports» Jeff Passan.

According to Rob Neyer of SB nation, the average ground ball pitcher has a ground ball rate of at least 50 % and extreme ground ball pitchers maintain a ground ball rate of 55 %.

«I'm a fly - ball pitcher,» Wells says, «and fly balls are home runs in Camden Yards.»

WHISKEY BUSINESS trumpeted the next day's Post after Wells gave new meaning to the term «high - ball pitcher» by minimizing his bout with gout: «If [the cause] is beer, then I'll go to whiskey; if it's whiskey, then I'll go to vodka.

In the 14th, as if in desperation, he wound up like a soft - ball pitcher and scored with a bolo punch to Duran's chin.

Like Masahiro Tanaka, who has become a breaking ball pitcher, Ohtani probably will have to throw his fastball less.

Since I am a curve ball pitcher, we will assume that I know I can get a certain batter out with my curve low and away.

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

If a pitcher is a good fast ball pitcher, he operates in much the same way, using his curve as a waste pitch and to keep the batter guessing, his changeup to keep him off balance, the fast ball to get him out.

DON NEWCOMBE, the Brooklyn Dodgers» huge, shambling fast - ball pitcher, is a man born with an awful passion, the thirst for greatness.

Carpenters glove isn't terrible and Leone isn't a ground ball pitcher.

Baseball - Reference's metric uses runs allowed, regardless of what might have happened to the balls the pitcher allows in play.

«We've got a lot of ground ball pitchers, so we can't give away outs,» says Manuel.

Even the junkies, the real slow ball pitchers, can cross up a batter by suddenly bursting one across as hard as they can throw.

Then they tried fly ball pitchers, for some reason.

This raised the possibility that ground ball pitchers could be overvalued, and public perception could magnify that edge in games played at Coors Field.

Since 2005, underdogs facing extreme ground ball pitchers have produced a 23.1 % return on investment (ROI) at Coors Field.

There has always been a trade - off between fly ball and ground ball pitchers.

These were fly ball pitchers, and they were unqualified busts during their time in Colorado.

Clearly it hasn't been profitable to wager on ground ball pitchers at Coors Field, so we wanted to see what would happen when fading (betting against) these extreme ground ball pitchers.

For years there has been a narrative propagated that fly ball pitchers can not succeed at Coors Field.

There's no doubt that scoring increases at Coors Field, but the perception that ground ball pitchers thrive at high altitudes is utterly false.

Not exact matches

«The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ball club.

The pitcher pitches the ball.

Historians trace the word «jazz» to a mediocre pitcher named Ben Henderson, who in 1912 told a reporter about his new curve ball: «I call it the Jazz ball because it wobbles and you simply can't do anything with it.»

There are rules, and plays fall into regular patterns (grounder to short, pop fly to left center, line drive up the middle), but no one knows who's going where when the pitcher lets go of the ball.

The runner on first breaks for second as the pitcher delivers the ball to home.

In a large pitcher place mellon balls.

All you need for this Melon Ball Sangria (the hardest part in making this pitcher cocktail) is — get your melon baller into use.

(Also, keep a thought for Aaron Judge, who smoked a ball with a runner in scoring position against a tough pitcher, just like he's supposed to, and got absolutely nothing out of it.)

Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg are must - see pitchers every fifth day, Trea Turner's speed is something to behold, third baseman Anthony Rendon has one of the prettiest swings in baseball, and the Nationals» bullpen is actually fun to watch now with sinker - balling right - hander Brandon Kintzler, hard - throwing righty Ryan Madson, and bearded heat - thrower Sean Doolittle at the back end.

As long as they're not expecting the new guy to fix the defense and teach the pitchers how to keep the ball in the park, they'll be fine.

The biggest difference in pitching now and then is this: in those days the ball got the batter out, and nowadays the pitcher gets him out.

There's a clean bunt, those slices off the bat; the pitcher won the battle, but those type of balls can cause the game to go the other way.»

In a scoreless duel, he drove a ball to dead - center in a pitcher's park, putting his team on the board and in the lead for good.

The average pitcher took 1.52 seconds to get the ball to Montero, which is definitely on the high side.

Up came Mickey Mantle and, with the count 3 - 1, Pitcher Jim Kaat decided to go with his fast ball.

It almost seems like it's something the organization is doing on purpose, acquiring pitchers with low strikeout rates (Tyler Chatwood, Jordan Lyles) and drafting them (Eddie Butler), as if putting the ball in play at Coors Field is the secret formula for success.

With two outs, left - handed - hitting Catcher Bill Chandler sent a sharp ground ball between first and second which Texas» First Baseman John Langerhans fielded nicely but threw low and wide toward Pitcher Hooton, who was covering first base.

But Astros pitchers were fourth in the league in ground ball percentage this year, inducing them on 47 percent of balls in play.

That all seems suspect, but it's impossible to prove that pitchers can't move the ball properly because of the balls.

The honor goes to Brave pitcher Charlie Leibrandt, who, after striking out the 1,000 th batter of his career on Aug. 29, rolled the ball to the Atlanta dugout so that he could keep the ball as a souvenir.

With nothing but a real good fast ball, one that breaks and jumps and moves all over the place, a pitcher can be a big winner in high school and college, on the sandlots, even in the minor leagues.

Brock, a mathematics major in college, made a science of stealing, breaking down his leads into precise numbers of steps, calculating how long it takes a ball to go from pitcher to catcher to second (2.9 seconds under optimum conditions) and speaking endlessly of «keys» and «three - movement deliveries» and similar arcana.

For a changeup most pitchers take a little something off their fast ball, but other things will work, too.

Mahomes is like a pro pitcher, he can throw the ball at different speeds and different angles.

Suppose that a batter is expecting a fast ball and suddenly, with the same motion, the pitcher throws something that takes a much longer time to get to the plate.

I'm talking about that real pinpoint control that enables a pitcher to put the ball exactly where he wants it every time.

Doc Medich, the Milwaukee pitcher, had walked Rickey Henderson on four straight balls in the third inning of the Brewers» game with the Oakland A's last Friday night in County Stadium, and now, reluctantly, he stood to become a part of baseball history.

There is more than one way to grip a ball properly for the same pitch and the only rule is that each pitcher should hold the ball the way that feels right for him.