Sentences with word «dinger»

One of the fun things about the 2017 season was the fact that we got to see a lot of dingers hit across all of baseball.

A fan favorite, he led the Pacific League in dingers in 1999 with 40 and even has his own line of clothing in Japanese stores.

The implicit question of Wii Sports — the phenomenal game that came with the original Wii — was, «Wouldn't it be great if you could hit dingers on screen just by swinging your arms like a baseball player?»

Not just a lot of dingers for a pitcher, either: in the last three seasons, he's hit 11 homers in 205 plate appearances, or one in 5.4 percent of his plate appearances, which is the same rate Mike Trout has over his last three campaigns.

They're sneaking up on the baseball world and threatening to club us over the head with dingers.

If the idea is, «idk, just get more dingers,» I can respect that, even if it's foolishly shortsighted.

Then, as Gary Sheffield of the Marlins did after crushing 42 dingers last year, he goes home to lift weights with a former Mr. Olympia to get bigger and stronger.

Sano finally got his second dinger at 2:25, and followed it up with his third and fourth.

There have been two times in my life when I was just sure a player was going to the speakeasy GNC: in 1996, when Mark McGwire was hitting dingers by the dozens, and in 1999, when Barry Bonds bought McGwire's body online during the offseason.

If you're looking for the greatest rookie dinger season in history, regardless of context, this is it.

The Marlins got dingers from Marcell Ozuna in the first and fourth innings, as well as a blast from Giancarlo Stanton in the first, with all three coming off of Jorge De La Rosa.

It, like every homer Stanton hits the rest of 2017, set a new career - high for him, and also tied him with Gary Sheffield's tremendous 1996 for the most dingers in a single season in Marlins history.

Judge hits long dingers.

Chris Davis» contract might be a mess in five years, but he's still a prodigious dinger monster for the near future.

With Gabriel fit for the mancs, Coquelin back and Sanchez and Walcott high after playing well and scoring it is going to be a hum DINGER of a game.

Chris Davis is still a free agent even though he led the majors in homers with 47 in 2015, and is the overall league leader in dingers since becoming a full - time player in 2012.

Or, at least, it's an underrated lineup if Matt Olson really is a future superstar and dinger machine, which he might be.

Hernandez hit three dingers against the Cubs in the deciding game of the NLCS, driving in seven runs in the process.

This year, it hasn't happened yet, but they did receive 41 % against the Yankees (another very public team) when Brett Gardner's 3 - run dinger in the 9th gave the Yankees the win.

Even though there aren't kids today who are experiencing the thrill of the rookie dinger boom through the wonder of jaw - exploding gum, maybe they're just as exciting about all these rookies while playing MLB: The Show, and it's basically the same feeling.

If dingers are a rare, desirable commodity in this pitching - friendly era, the Diamondbacks will have an advantage over most of the teams in baseball.

Judge then was in total control in the finals, where Miguel Sano seemed to struggle to get to 10, while Judge notched dinger number 11 with 1:53 left in the round — and 2:23 if you want to count the 30 seconds of bonus time he left on the table.

And they would probably sock a few dingers, especially when the # 9 spot came up.

However, the Red Sox are the team that should want him more because of those sweet sweet dingers he can offer, so the closer that it gets to Spring Training they may blink faster than the Diamondbacks in this stare down.

There are intimate parks where balls fly out, and cavernous outfields where potential dingers die just short of the wall.

Lindor's blast was his second dinger on the day, and also made up for an earlier error in the game that allowed the Rangers to plate two runs.

He was a large dinger boy back in his day, and it was fun to watch him swat at batting - practice pitches.

Baseball's two beefiest dinger boys had an unofficial, forced rivalry, just because they shared a similar physique, and you could see by the exasperation in their eyes that they were sick of the comparisons.

He's certainly hitting plenty in terms of quantity, even if they aren't traveling all Stanton - like, as Blackmon had 10 dingers before calling timeout with 1:09 left.

Hope you all like dingers.

It all depends on whether anyone would sign him, of course — or how much he feels like being a Dad with a capital D — but if he manages to string together three seasons without any kind of PED incident, and he's still performing at a level where dingers are leaving the park often, someone will sign him.

«It's definitely made me stronger,» says designated hitter John Roskos, whose 23 dingers through Sunday are more than twice his total for all last season with Portland.

Intriguingly, if 70 dingers becomes a common total, McGwire's number 70 might be more valuable than Bonds's record ball.

It's pretty hard to get this low with one of the only 50 - dinger threats in baseball, but Wieters would be the worst No. 5 hitter, and it's not like No. 5 hitters are an elite club right now.

The Indians and Royals would both be very good home for instant dingers.

There have been too many ridiculous comebacks and too many big dingers in this series for any Dodgers» fans to panic at this quick lead of Houston's, but still, having this start stop right about now would probably do a better job of reminding them of that than me just saying it.

The Cubs are likely going to hit him eighth, and if he does exactly what he did last year — superb defense and a dozen dingers or so — that would be just fine with them.

The Blue Jays were able to get Bautista back without messing up their future, so it's a little over-dramatic to suggest this has ramifications for subsequent seasons, but it's another reminder that the fun dinger - mashing Blue Jays of late «15 aren't coming back, at least in their funnest possible form.

The Ichiro of Unlimited Power has been an urban legend for years, and if we can let him fulfill his dream of pitching, we should let him fulfill our dream of a single - minded dinger - happy Ichiro.

And the dream of a big - boy bookend in the outfield to smack dingers for the next decade is a beautiful dream.

Same dingers.

Worrying about the relative dinger distribution within the lineup doesn't crack my top 10,000 concerns this year.

Seems like something the fans would forgive after the first dinger, but it's been offered as a reason, so we have to address it.

After a career with the Brewers and Rangers, I feel like it's time to be nice to Gallardo and put him somewhere that's less dinger - happy.

Low - average dingers are nice, but Valbuena wouldn't lack for at - bats.

It takes it from, «Watching baseball in a dark stadium with a retractable roof that wouldn't be opened if it were 72 ˚ and zero percent chance of rain» to «Hell yeah, Marlins Park, let's see Giancarlo Stanton break one of those stupid flamingo beaks off with a 110 - mph dinger.»

Alex Rodriguez hit a spring dinger, and fans didn't gnash their teeth or rend their garments.

Maybe there's enough dinger - powder left in Ramirez, after all, and at the very least, he should be better than what the Mets have on hand.

Do you take the pitcher who might be an all - time legend, and who also hit a game - winning dinger in addition to his shutout?