Sentences with phrase «best hitters»

But if the owner asks if you want Albert Pujols, who was still one of the very best hitters in baseball, it's not like you're made of stone.

I'm just trying to do as much as possible to be on base for the guys to drive me in, because we've got a lot of good hitters behind me.

The reason it was a big deal was because Sandoval was supposed to be the only good hitter on the 2010 Giants.

And is nowhere near as good a hitter as Nicholas.

They remade their team, with their two best hitters from last season gone, and yet they somehow got better.

So it's not the real good hitters you've got to get out.

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

Whentheir best hitter came up, I pitched to him.

Bell is our DH of the future, and can even spell Abreu at 1B from time to time Newman looks like a darn good hitter and can either slide to 3B, or we move Moncada to 3B and play Newman at 2B Diaz is a C with offensive upside in case Collins can't stick behind the plate

and the flashes of game power don't disappear, he could be a legitimately good hitter.

The Dodgers had one good hitter going into the 1988 World Series, and he was broken.

Lady BABIP is more useful when it's compared to the individual's career BABIP than a general standard, because some players are just better hitters by virtue of their skill; BABIP is not just simply random luck.

They're hitting ahead of Belt who is the second or third best hitter on the team.

The reason I wouldn't want Belt to do that isn't because it's necessarily a stupid idea but because he's a sufficiently good hitter anyway that his normal approach is just fine.

Marcelino, Spanberger, and Vilade have been good hitters otherwise the team has been not - so - good.

But I think he is a really strong piece with other good hitters around him and men on base.

After much discussion by Captain Brian «whose a really good hitter, I just never noticed before Wednesday» Wilneff and the rest of his team they opted to pitch to the Animal (Multack).

They are adding the Bay Area's best pitcher over the last four years in Amador Valley's Johanna Gruaer (read more on her on Page 28), and the East Bay's best hitter over the last four years in Alhambra shortstop Kylee Perez.

It looks so good coming out of Verlander's hand, though: it's not like Bellinger is the first good hitter to fall for that trick.

Maybe good hitters — and other people who can react quickly to a visual stimulus — have very fast alpha oscillations.»

they have a bunch of good hitters.

The two best hitters in baseball, Mike Trout and Miguel Cabrera, paired off in Los Angeles as the Detroit Tigers played the Angels on Thursday night.

Upton automatically becomes the second - best hitter on the team.

And although he is a good, determined pull hitter who is learning to go to the opposite field as well and baseball men are predicting he will hit 30 home runs a year, he may never be as good a hitter as Dickey or the others at their best.

«I wasn't a very good hitter that first year,» he says.

In fact, this seems to be true of most of the real good hitters.

«We have too many good hitters to stay in this slump,» said Manager Gordon.

In baseball, even the best hitters fail 7 out of 10 times.

But you shouldn't let a loss get you down — after all, the best hitters in baseball fail two out of three times.

Even the best hitters in baseball fail two out of three times.

Scherzer has the ability to make the best hitters in baseball look absolutely foolish.

After all, it doesn't really matter how a player gets on base — whether it's through a hit, a walk or even hit by a pitch — because once he's there, he has the same chance to score a run as a good hitter, which is the only thing that matters in a game that's decided by one team outscoring the other.

Ted Williams, in The Story of My Life, explains why: «My argument is, to be a good hitter, you've got to get a good ball to hit.

The best hitters make outs more often than they get on base.

The A's insist on playing a guy who is clearly not a good hitter, nor will he ever be, instead of their top hitting prospect who could have helped them win a game or two by now.

But most teams do stuff their best hitters from Nos. 3 - 5.

In Game 5, they had the lead, might have extended it further if not for the kind of send at third base that haunts a fan base for years, left the bases loaded late, and then had their best hitter this year, Daniel Murphy, weakly pop up in the ninth against Kershaw, who was working on a day of rest.

I was a good hitter.

But your good hitters are going to hit you.

The good hitters are going to get their hits.

The man's a future Hall of Famer and one of the best hitters of his era, but he needs help in the biggest way to get the Reds finally out of the NL Central cellar.

At the plate is the Sox» best hitter, a kid namedJordan.

Anthony Rendon might be the best hitter on the team.

Sometimes you're going to work very carefully to a good hitter and sometimes you even may wind up walking him.

C.J. Cron was their next - best hitter, except he was also the team's first baseman, so his right - around - average performance was nowhere near enough for the position.