Sentences with phrase «days as a pitcher»

He had been a 14 - year - old baseball prodigy with an 87mph fastball until the rotator - cuff injury ended his days as a pitcher.

Not exact matches

So the batter dives into the pitch — he doesn't simply stride toward the pitcher as in the old days — and is just as likely to pull an outside pitch out of the park as he is to hit it out to the opposite field.

Pitchers throw harder these days, but TTO for our purposes is particularly important as it relates to hitters.

All those years toiling on the mound, peering down the long alley toward the plate at those constant disturbers of his sense of well - being settling into their stances and flicking their bats — and then to look down one day and find Henry Aaron there, the large, peaceful, dark face with the big eyes and the high forehead, and to know that one mistake, one small lapse of concentration, would place the pitcher's name forever in the record books as having thrown the «immortal gopher.»

In his first few days in camp, Whitt tried to catch as many of the young pitchers as possible: John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, Pete Smith, Marty Clary, Derek Lilliquist, Joe Boever, Stanton.

On St. Patrick's day in Vero Beach, Fla., a 20 - year - old pitcher from South Korea wearing a green Los Angeles Dodger cap (he had no idea what that was all about) rocked back from the pitching rubber, brought both hands high above his head and stopped, motionless as an oil painting.