Sentences with word «centerfield»

Matt den Dekker is quickly becoming a household name in centerfield because of his speediness...

He didn't grow up in Queens, but he spent every Sunday here with his grandparents and his dad in the shadow of Shea Stadium, dreaming of someday playing centerfield for the New York Mets.

Yet Henderson then knocked Moore's forkball over the left centerfield fence for his first hit of the series and a 6 - 5 lead.

Acquired forthe second time by the Oakland A's, on May 3, Cust appeared in his first majorleague game in two years on May 6 — and in his fourth plate appearance launcheda pitch over left centerfield at Tampa's Tropicana Field.

Dr. Dan likes cycling, hiking and wonders what it would be like playing centerfield for the Boston Red Sox, not necessarily in that order.

The ball landed in the blackened area behind centerfield, just below the sign with the Marlboro man on it.

A fistful of confetti tossed from the second deck in right centerfield drifted down in the shape of an imperfect V, landing just beyond the spot where the ball disappeared into the stands.

Maddon didnot go onto the field on Aug. 15 in Texas, but he did take an extraordinarystep, removing B.J. Upton from his position in centerfield because he was angrythat Upton had not run out a grounder in the top half of the inning.

Though the director occasionally explores this idea, Spielberg too often swerves into the easier territory of serving up genre references and lobbing them into centerfield for a cheering crowd.

Long needed to hear no more — he batted.410 through the first 13 exhibition games to establish himself as the favorite for the starting centerfield job.

He's played centerfield at Yankee Stadium and classical guitar concerts around the country — the man knows big stages.

He played a shallow centerfield, even more so than Willie Mays did when he broke in.

No ball is safe in centerfield when Tapia is on the hunt.

If I should tell you that Gene Neely made the all - American team in football, played a crack centerfield in baseball, that he could handle a golf course in the eighties, and was a master at tennis, you would say, would you not, that he must have had a magnificent physique.

all the time playing a terrific centerfield.

The brothers compliment each other well with Eric being an enforcer in the box and Justin manning centerfield.

Also, not to minimize how good Sherman is, but he had the best centerfield safety in the league in Earl Thomas; when you have a fast safety who can cover sideline to sideline like Earl can, Sherman's lack of speed becomes less of a concern.

When you're out there in centerfield getting balls, it's like trying to get an interception.

The waist - high centerfield and rightfield fences carry ads for MARSHFIELD FAMOUS PIZZA RTE.

STATISTICS CAN LIE Toronto first baseman Fred McGriff hit a homer in the SkyDome last week that bounced off the windows of the restaurant overlooking centerfield.

Then the fates squared accounts with Rodriguez too: His quailing single dropped into short centerfield to send Gomez home with the game - winner.

PETCO, which owner John Moores says «will be the new standard for ballparks,» also boasts an existing factory building incorporated into the leftfield corner; a grassy park area beyond centerfield; and, because of a wacky configuration of walls and seating near the rightfield foul pole, the most mind - blowing corner since Haight and Ashbury.

Because of the 411 - foot right centerfield gap, Klesko, Nevin and rightfielder Brian Giles, all of whom have power that way, may find it difficult to go downtown downtown.

For example, my research found that MLB overs have gone 2,451 - 2,255 (52.1 %) when the wind is blowing straight out to centerfield since the start of the 2005 season.

It was in another series against Cincinnati that summer that Ashburn pursued a fly ball to shallow left centerfield.

(Previously Durocher moved Thomson from centerfield to left to free up at bats for 20 - year - old Willie Mays.)

In their stead the Indians have seen outfielder Michael Brantley blossom: The 24 - year - old had a.372 OBP and has held down the leadoff and centerfield jobs when Grady Sizemore has been injured.

Trammell, who in 15 major league seasons never played a defensive position other than shortstop, will work at third base, first base, leftfield and centerfield because his successor at short, Travis Fryman, took over when Trammell was injured last season — and Fryman is there to stay.

And this year he has pulled a low - and - inside Phil Niekro knuckleball for a homer; hit a high - and - tight fastball past Steve Carlton into centerfield to knock in a run in a 6 - 0, four - hit shutout of the Phillies; and, in another complete - game win, a five - hit shutout of the Mets, he got an RBI on a groundout after New York Pitcher Charlie Puleo had walked the Padres» No. 8 hitter intentionally.

(A fire earlier in the year had caused $ 250,000 in damage to the bleachers in centerfield.)

Stepping into the batting cage to take BP, Reggie momentarily bares his teeth to accommodate his trademark reptilian spit, then bunts for his first hit: Just putting the bat on the ball, he taps it out to centerfield, where the young players stand idle, waiting for the afternoon to go away.

He could play centerfield, in the box safety or straight up man to man if need be.

That's why he wears a helmeteven in centerfield.

The A's have current or former All - Stars at catcher, first base, second base, third base, leftfield, centerfield, right - field, designated hitter, starting pitcher (three of them) and reliever.

Lawton is a shrewd pickup because he gets on base -LRB-.366 on - base percentage) and allows manager Joe Torre to put Bernie Williams at designated hitter, Hideki Matsui in centerfield and Tony Womack on the bench.

In centerfield, just above the concourse, you can catch a glimpse of Jenny and the pre / post game telecast crew.

Furthermore, he can fly, hit with power and play centerfield.

His range is average, but no one's faster turning the double play... Bobby Bonilla was a good pickup for them: He can play first, third and the corner outfield spots, and he did a good job hitting off the bench last year... Edmonds makes you think playing centerfield is easy.

The Diamondbacks» acquisition board is still blank in centerfield.

I remember being out there, I played first base and centerfield, and I think I was first base that day.

A few days before that Mets reliever Turk Wendell drilled Expos slugger Vladimir Guerrero in the back a day after Guerrero had driven a 3 - and - 0 pitch from Wendell to the centerfield wall with Montreal ahead 10 - 0.

The ball rose off Aaron's bat in the normal trajectory of his long hits — the arc of a four - iron shot in golf — ripping out over the infield, the shortstop instinctively bending his knees as if he could leap for it, and it headed for deep left centerfield...

On a baseball diamond so scraggly that an impoverished goat would find it unappetizing, a schoolboy and the master cross paths while running sprints in centerfield.

The only real question mark is centerfield, where Terrence Long should be an upgrade on Ryan Christenson.

As he made the long walk with the dish to the clubhouse, 600 feet away behind the centerfield fence, Auld Lang Syne wafted down from the speakers.