Sentences with phrase «dingers last»

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.

Puig hit a dinger last time up, and he is now waiting for the perfect pitch to crush again, apparently.

Not exact matches

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.

His defense was so bad, that Baseball - Reference's WAR ranks his 140 OPS +, 25 - dinger season last year as the ninth-most valuable season of any hitter, just above Miguel Rojas, Darwin Barney, and Zack Greinke (as a hitter).

Mathews» 1958 season was the kind of low - average, high - dinger season Stanton had last year, but he shook it off and had some of the best seasons of his career.

«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.

Home runs now occur more frequently than double plays, and nearly half the regular players hit at least 20 dingers (43 % of the players with 400 at bats did so last year).

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.

Giancarlo Stanton hit his 42nd homer of the season on Sunday, his ninth dinger in 12 August games, and the 21st homer he's hit over his last 33 contests.

Years after Bonds played his last game, the anti-steroid fervor has died down enough to allow players like Nelson Cruz to get multi-year deals as long as he's hitting dingers.

Walker, who hit just.142 on the road last year, began 1997 with two dingers in the season - opening series at Cincinnati.