Sentences with phrase «era in baseball»

The lowest ERA in baseball history that isn't a flat 0.00?

The Cardinals opened the season at 12/1 to win the title, but with a 19 - 6 start through the first 25 games of the season and the lowest team ERA in baseball at 2.44 the Cards have moved their way up the betting board.

By midsummer you could plainly see Leo Durocher leaping and pivoting at shortstop when Brooklyn played Cincinnati in the first televised major league game, inaugurating a new era in baseball and perhaps a new era in ham acting as well.

It reminds me of the steroids era in baseball.

Not exact matches

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

He leads the AL in Baseball - Reference's WAR and adjusted ERA (second in ERA -, if that's your thing).

He's the best pitcher in baseball, and it's why he's the proud owner of a 0.91 ERA, which is the lowest in the NL, obviously.

Pete Rose is the all - time leader for hits in Major League Baseball history, and that's indisputable, but what Ichiro did, spanning two decades and two countries, in an era of LOOGYs and power closers, while performing at a high level and not writing himself into the lineup, just might be more impressive.

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.

Here we have one of the worst hitters in baseball history, a symbol of the post-Mays era, a player who was booed so much by San Francisco fans that he once took the field with «BOO» stitched on the back of his jersey, and one of my favorite players as an adolescent.

It's the highest ERA from any pitcher with more than 50 innings in baseball history.

And Giancarlo Stanton will have played in one of the highest home run eras of all time, with a suspect baseball that just might be different.

«I was nearly run out of baseball in 1986 for having a 4.50 ERA,» Eckersley says.

Before the modern era of baseball (since 1901) Cleveland (in N.L.) won only 20 of 154 games in 1899.

Piazza and Stewart discussed his new book, Long Shot, steroid use in baseball and the Hall of Fame shutting out steroid - era players.

But it's a rising generation of good young pitchers that may be driving baseball into an era in which the little things matter again

In fact, a lot of baseball writers have actively worked to eliminate that era from the history books.

Very well reasoned, as always, and very convincing about what ails baseball in our era.

The best pitcher in baseball has the lowest career ERA (2.60 in his six seasons) of any starter in the live - ball eERA (2.60 in his six seasons) of any starter in the live - ball eraera.

Since the Wild Card Era started in 1995, there have been 28 seasons in which a pitcher has racked up at least eight wins above replacement, according to Baseball Reference.

But as we've discussed before, it's fine: MLB has made changes before in order to boost offense, iike lowering the mound in the 60s or the previous change to baseballs in the late - 90s that coincided (and was overshadowed by) the steroid era.

Lopez was the No. 48 prospect in baseball at midseason per Baseball America, and posted a 3.21 ERA in 19 minor league starts in 2016, with 126 strikeouts and 35 walks in 109 baseball at midseason per Baseball America, and posted a 3.21 ERA in 19 minor league starts in 2016, with 126 strikeouts and 35 walks in 109 Baseball America, and posted a 3.21 ERA in 19 minor league starts in 2016, with 126 strikeouts and 35 walks in 109 innings.

He was one of baseball's best pitchers in the second half last season and finished the year with a 9 - 12 record but a respectable 3.61 ERA.

That 1.80 ERA is the best in baseball the last four seasons among all pitchers with at least 200 innings.

Yet in an era of baseball dominance rivaling Andy Reid's early Eagles and Allen Iverson's Sixers, none of us expected to be zooming down Broad Street one night in 2008.

«Luck» plays a huge role in baseball — we would not otherwise love measurables like FIP, ERA + or Pythagorean W / L.

It would be short - sighted to believe the Nationals will continue to lose 80 % of Edwin Jackson's starts if his ERA remains close to 3 and it would be downright foolish to assume Lincecum will remain one of the worst pitchers in baseball — even if he's not always a good bet.

The last four were stars in the Baseball Card Era, which meant that every kid knew who they were and would follow along with rapt interest.

Despite playing in arguably the most competitive division in baseball and possessing neither a potent offense (18th in baseball in runs scored) nor an elite pitching staff (11th in baseball in team ERA), Baltimore is 10 games above.500.

Shields has been one of the 10 best pitchers in baseball by ERA + since 2011.

As a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur player.

While steroid testing with penalties seems to be the default answer to every change in baseball since the drug - screening era began in 2004, the biggest change in how the game is played is the proliferation of strikeouts.

HUNTER SCHILPEROORT Westmont - Campbell — Baseball — Senior The dominant two - way player earned multiple Player of the Year honors after posting a 9 - 2 record with a 0.79 ERA with 86 strikeouts in 79 innings, and logging a pair of postseason shutouts, including a no - hitter against Santa Clara.

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Jeff Parrett (12 - 6, 2.98) may be the best setup man in baseball, and Roger McDowell had 19 saves and a 1.11 ERA after moving over from the Mets last June.

While that may appear to be a substantial difference, Ruth played in a different era, one in which there was no night baseball and not nearly as much relief pitching.

The steroid era sure seems like it was the era of steroids, but it's still probably improperly named, since there were plenty of other aspects at play that caused offense to rise: smaller ballparks, multiple expansions in the decade that (temporarily) diluted the talent pool in MLB, and juiced baseballs as proven by studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and written about by Jay Jaffe.

Gray spent all of 2014 at AA Tulsa and posted 22.2 % strikeout rate, 8.1 % walk rate, a 1.19 WHIP, a 3.91 ERA and a 3.43 FIP in 124.1 innings pitched in his age 22 season in a league with an average age of 24.5 according to Baseball America.

Brad Pitt makes it look effortless in Moneyball (Sony), a drama about the business of baseball in the era of multi-million dollar payrolls based on the non-fiction bestseller by Michael Lewis.

Penny Marshall, the artist formerly known as Laverne, hits a solid line drive in this pop - feminist period piece about a WWII - era women's baseball team.

Whit Stillman is a director fascinated by the idea of people gladly displaced from their own time: foppish debutantes abide by romantic era courting rituals in»90s Manhattan in Metropolitan; a good old limbo contest trumps modern jazz in Barcelona; and lovers of disco music band together while boxes of wax platters are torched at baseball games in The Last Days of Disco.

With its fascinating details about life as a black person in America, from Jim Crow through the current baseball era, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of baseball, African Americans and race.

Baseball's Greatest Players does an even - handed job incorporating players from the Negro Leagues but exhibits some bias in picking players primarily from the pre-expansion era (prior to the 1960s).

Ken Moraff in Ithaca, New York, whose winning book is It Happened in Wisconsin, is the general fiction category winner, about a Depression - era baseball team and the dynamics of its players relationships.

Born in pre-civil rights Philadelphia to an African - American family obsessed with Jackie Robinson - era baseball, Pindell has frequently found inspiration in the movements of sports, translating them into abstract works.

The subjects in Wiley's paintings often wear sneakers, hoodies, and baseball caps, gear associated with hip - hop culture, and are set against contrasting ornate decorative backgrounds that evoke earlier eras and a range of cultures.

In fact, the 2011 blockbuster Moneyball is loosely based on the story of baseball manager Beane (played by Brad Pitt) & Mets executive Paul DePodesta who introduced professional sports to the «Era of Big Data».