Sentences with phrase «fastball pitchers»

Despite the stark data, not everyone in baseball agrees that playoff baseball is better for fastball pitchers.

«Most of the great fastball pitchers have been about the same size, not too tall, not too short,» he says.

Most of the great fastball pitchers were wild at some time in their careers.

«Fastball pitchers are very excitable,» said Dal Canton last week.

Fastball pitchers normally tire by the ninth inning, and since my book was the ninth of nine reviewed by Charlotte Allen in» The Holy Feminine» (December 1999), perhaps fastball fatigue explains why she threw those wicked curves at my Roses, Fountains, and Gold: The Virgin Mary in History, Art, and Apparition.

Not exact matches

While many pitchers can throw 90 mile - per - hour fastballs in spring training, few can hold onto the same performance during a World Series game.

Ozzie, Jose's fraternal twin, was drafted as a hard - throwing righthanded pitcher by the Yankees in 1983, tore his rotator cuff three years later and lost 10 mph off his 90 - mph - plus fastball.

Joe Rudi, a thinking man's hitter, observed all this and, reasoning that Marshall's arm would not be warm, concluded that the pitcher would eschew a breaking pitch in the hope of sneaking a fastball past him.

Pitcher throwing fastball beats hitter looking for curveball, et cetera.

«He can spot his fastball in and out and has everything you look for in a quality pitcher.»

The righty's 97.5 average fastball velocity was the second best in all of baseball among pitchers who threw at least 80 IP in 2017, and with a change - up that's a full 10 mph slower, he's got a devastating strikeout pitch to match it.

* Say, pitchers evolving to Aroldis Chapman - like fastballs, but doing it with pinpoint control that neutralizes the big - data revolution... for a couple years, at least.

The others were Pitchers Carl Mays (1915 - 29), whose fastball killed Cleveland's Ray Chapman in 1920, and well - traveled Jakie May (1917 - 32).

Even finesse pitchers such as Maddux and teammate Tom Glavine work primarily off their fastballs.

Young pitchers in particular tend to stray from the fastball, a habit formed in high school and college where hitters whip 28 - ounce aluminum bats.

Armed, however, with avicious split - fingered fastball that's as good as ever and the aforementionedhardheadedness — Clemens is a staunch power pitcher the way Strom Thurmondremained a staunch conservative to the grave — Clemens concedes nothing.Whatever velocity he may have lost since his prime years is compensated forwith conviction and command.

A classic, power breaking pitch that Braves righthander Smoltz throws as hard as most pitchers» fastballs.

Thanks largely to proselytizing by Roger Craig, the split - fingered fastball has become a big hit with pitchers — and a big miss with the hitters

Another one of the best sights in baseball is a pitcher who can throw a slider as fast as some other pitchers throw a fastball.

He was a relief pitcher of distinctive rhythms: deep, snoring naps in the bullpen that stretched through a game's first five innings; languid ninth - inning strolls to the mound that tested the patience of even the most unalloyed baseball purists; an endless, silky windup that uncoiled fastballs that until recent years hit 100 mph.

A college pitcher with more mph on the fastball but lesser secondary pitches?

Yes, pitchers are generally garbage hitters, but that's against 95 mile per hour fastballs and curves that buckle the knees and change - ups that throw your timing off.

Villa Clara pitcher Freddy Alvarez hit one batter in the head with a fastball, and then aimed for a second batter's head.

He had a stance at the plate where he near had his back to the pitcher; he was so far turned around that I could see the number 3 on his uniform; I didn't think the monkey could come around quick enough on my fastball to get his bat on it.

It is Martinez's fastball, though, that measures his growth as a pitcher.

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.

Lawrie comes up, cheesed off about his night and thinking about a young pitcher having problems throwing fastballs for a strike.

Pitchers had a focused gameplan; in particular, all the starters used the high fastball effectively against Angels hitters and neutralized their strengths.

Most pitchers try to jam him with inside fastballs because, like many big men, he has trouble getting around on them.

I would assume that opposing pitchers are avoiding throwing the fastball, and the Red Sox hitters are content to wait for it.

In the article, Passan highlights the loss in velocity for aces like Justin Verlander, CC Sabathia and Felix Hernandez, while also identifying 13 pitchers who have seen the biggest decline in their average fastball speed (in terms of mph):

The American League long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastballs.

Like Masahiro Tanaka, who has become a breaking ball pitcher, Ohtani probably will have to throw his fastball less.

Pitchers should be able to exploit him with fastballs up (he's a dead low - ball hitter) and hard stuff on his hands, the way they exploit the mechanics of Jason Heyward's swing.

When a pitcher throws a first - pitch 98 - mph fastball low in the strike zone to Cliff Pennington, he should feel like he's done a Very Good Baseball Thing.

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

A varsity pitcher as well, he has a 91 - mph fastball.

For this reason, the Rockies have traditionally targeted pitchers featuring plus fastballs, cutters, splitters and sinkers.

It's a blazing fastball, the kind that can blow hitters away even if it's coming from a pitcher a foot - and - a-half shorter.

Jon Gray is the consensus # 1 prospect in the Rockies organization, and for good reason, Gray possesses a big fastball and a chance to develop into a nice strikeout pitcher down the line.

Few young pitchers can match him in terms of stuff: he has a 92 - 94 MPH fastball that he can bump up to 96 when he needs it.

Little League did not institute a ban on curve balls, and, in light of new research suggesting that the pitch does not, contrary to conventional wisdom, put more strain on a young pitcher's elbow than other pitches (indeed, the research suggests curveballs place less stress on the elbow than a fastball), was perhaps correct in not doing so.

The circumstances were downright frightening: A fastball from perhaps the hardest - throwing pitcher in the sport was pulverized by a powerful young hitter.

Other pitchers have gained fame over the years because of what are called their breaking fastballs, which seem to suddenly rise on their way to the catcher.

Astrophysicists using a telescope embedded in Antarctic ice have succeeded in a quest to detect and record the mysterious phenomena known as cosmic neutrinos — nearly massless particles that stream to Earth at the speed of light from outside our solar system, striking the surface in a burst of energy that can be as powerful as a baseball pitcher's fastball.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Major League Baseball pitchers who throw a high percentage of fastballs may be at increased risk for Tommy John surgery, according to research at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Researchers suggest that throwing fastballs nearly half of the time puts pitchers at risk of injury to their elbow.

«Throwing fastballs may be linked to Tommy John surgery in MLB pitchers.»

MLB pitchers who have undergone Tommy John surgery threw on average 7 percent more fastballs than pitchers who had no surgery.

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