Sentences with phrase «by major league pitchers»
The number of pitches thrown by major league pitchers is closely monitored to protect against injury, but monitoring pitch count is even more important in younger players because growing bones and joints are more susceptible to injury than in adults.
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• Montreal pitcher Mark Gardner tied a major league record by hitting three St. Louis batters in one inning.
The proper analog would be 1968, when the entire National League had a collective 2.99 ERA, which was boring as heck and followed by Major League Baseball lowering the height of the pitcher's mound.
Headed by current Major League Scout for NY Yankees, former San Francisco Giant's Outfielder and Team USA Silver medalist Jalal Leach and assisted by Jarman Leach current associate scout for Kansas City Royals and a former professional pitcher in the San Diego Padres Organization.
The Mariners ended Honeycutt's Jack - of - all - trades career by designating him a pitcher and immediately putting him on their major league roster.
Lollar was a good - sized, at his present 6» 3» and 195 pounds, and successful pitcher by the end of his sophomore year at Mineral Area College, a juco near his home in Farmington, Mo. (He's no relation to Sherm Lollar, the former major league catcher who also lived in Missouri.)
No, unless you'd like to watch their pitchers challenge the major league record of 827 walks, set by the 1915 Athletics, in which case you really need to get out of the house more.
It was presented at home plate by the old major league pitcher, Walter (Duster) Mails, now with the Giants» front office.
By 2013, he was one of the best pitchers in the major leagues.
One of the greatest fears shared by major - league pitchers — and hitters — was realized at a spring training game in Surprise, Ariz., last Wednesday night: Aroldis Chapman, the fireballing Cincinnati Reds closer, was hit flush in the face by a line drive off the bat of Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez.
An investigation conducted by Major League Baseball determined that a member of the Red Sox training staff used the smartwatch to receive information that helped the team's players decipher hand signals used by the opposing team's catcher, who is in charge of making (and signaling) the pitch selections for the pitcher.