Sentences with phrase «batting practice»

15 - year - old Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the son of former MLBer Vlad Guerrero, recently took batting practice in front of Blue Jays, Yankees and Angels scouts in the Dominican Republic.

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.

Many of my friends from college are die - hard Sox fans, and they'd be hard - pressed to put a value on shagging flies in center field during batting practice at Fenway Park.

Hernandez, whose family is one of thousands in Puerto Rico affected by the devastation of Hurricane Maria, exchanged text messages with his mother before taking batting practice for Game 5 of the NLCS.

One afternoon, while recuperating from a fractured thumb, he spent almost an hour taking batting practice at Jarry Park.

A few yearsago I took a shot to the chops during batting practice before a Triple A game, and I was fortunate to keep all my teeth and only end up with a scarred lipafter a couple of stitches.

Did you watch him rob home runs and crack up, and did you watch him in batting practice with his backwards hat, making people mad who deserve to be mad?

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Well, Koufax did throw batting practice for the Dodgers in the 1981 World Series.

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A day later, Wikander, 17, recounted the moment and what it meant to him as he watched batting practice from behind the cage at Marlins Park.

Granted some guys look better when they're pitching batting practice behind a screen than they do in a game, but these are some of the best young arms I've ever seen.»

There are certain players who have shown themselves to be slightly better home run hitters than certain other players, but that doesn't really apply to the derby format, in which guys are hucking batting practice from seven feet away and rounds can last as few as ten pitches.

One day later, Puig exacerbated the problem by showing up late to a scheduled early batting practice session, and was benched one more day.

The entrepreneur business world is like batting practice.

This goal looked like something straight out of batting practice.

The two teams will get picked up by bus at their respective schools, take a tour of the stadium, use the Marlins Park clubhouses to get dressed, take batting practice on the field and play at 6:30 p.m., according to Cerra.

«Took batting practice tonight, and it hurt just a little.»

It was just batting practice, 65 - mph stuff, but balls were jumping off his bat, which had GO BO engraved on the barrel.

The heavy bat practice group averaged 77.2 kilometers per hour with their real swings — not as quick as the other two groups.

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 12: American League All - Star Josh Donaldson # 20 of the Toronto Blue Jays looks on during batting practice prior to the 87th MLB All - Star Game at PETCO Park

«I'm gonna take batting practice tomorrow before I go to Baltimore,» he says with a twinkle in his eye.

Williams took extra batting practice but was told not to swing the bat.

During batting practice Coach Jim Lemon offered some advice to Tony Oliva, Minnesota's two - time batting champion whose average this year is only.254.

Watching him take his private batting practice in the afternoon was Ginette.

«They always called me a good batting practice hitter in Baltimore,» he recalls.

If we take 40 batting practice swings, he'll get 20.

Against batting practice, these former high school and college bats can just let it rip.

... LHP Wei - Yin Chen was scheduled to throw batting practice Friday and will make one more rehab start this weekend as he recovers from a left elbow injury.

People paid cash money to sit around and watch the dullest batting practice in recorded history.

Just last week Palmeiro walked away from a desultory batting practice grumbling to Davis, «Well that's great, just grrreat.

Until now, it has been a typical day for Palmeiro — which is to say he went through batting practice grousing about the quality of his cuts, the feel of his bats and the offerings of the practice pitcher.

«I would just find something to throw up on [the sheet listing groups for batting practice] just to see who was paying attention,» says Hurdle, who digs up the quotes from reference books he keeps in his office.

A jammed thumb has forced the American League's MVP to miss batting practice the past four days, and there is a bridled restlessness about him, like that of a heavy smoker in his third day of trying to kick the nic.

Your child is old enough to understand explanations now, too, so tell him why indoor batting practice is ill - advised.

Or can I go to Steinbrenner Field and take batting practice too?

At ten o'clock on a morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her mother's Dodge Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox batting practice jersey (the one with 36 GORDON on the back) and playing with Mona, her doll.

They take hundreds and hundreds of pitches in batting practice so when they get in the game, they have confidence and muscle memory to hit the ball.

The final game consists of three Piranha Plants shooting balls to you like the world's most intimidating batting practice.

The Phillies and General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. are being sued by the team's former batting practice pitcher Ali Modami, reports SB Nation.

The truly great players who want a long career take batting practice seriously and prepare for every game.

The next afternoon Rays owner Stuart Sternberg was down on thefield taking batting practice with MC Hammer, who was giving a postgame concertthat night.

Nash was watching batting practice at Fenway Park prior to the Houston Astros - Boston Red Sox game when she decided to take the above photo.

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One of my favorite baseball stories goes like this... In 1977 or»78 or»81 — one of the years the Dodgers were in the World Series — Sandy Koufax was throwing batting practice to the Dodger hitters before a game.