Sentences with phrase «field in a baseball game»

It didn't matter if I couldn't hear anything in a gym of 1,000 screaming people at one of my high school basketball games or trying to hear what the coach was telling me from across the field in a baseball game..

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Baseball players spend half the game standing in the field waiting for something to come their way, and the other half sitting in the dugout waiting for a chance to bat.

On occasion, baseball fields were laid out more or less side by side where we played, and if the game I was taking part in was not sufficiently interesting, I would turn around and watch another or pass the time with my neighboring exile, a forlorn and uncoordinated wretch who had been banished to the right field of his game.

Last year the Cubs had the best record in baseball (103 - 58), had home field advantage, with the Dodgers coming off a grueling five - game series win in Washington D.C.

Unless you're some sort of phenom, odds are good that if you are headed to a quality four year baseball program, you're not going to see a lot of the field for the first two years; you may possibly even redshirt as a freshman and not get any game action in at all.

The regular White Sox lineup is one of the most impressive in baseball — they can hit (well), run (very well) and field (beautifully), and the big - three pitching staff of Pierce, Harshman and Donovan will win a lot of games.

When he stands in the first or third base box, yelling, sleeping, blowing kisses, spraying water, there is an actual baseball game going on, and some managers — Gene Mauch and the late Paul Richards, for instance — tried at various times to keep Max from taking the field.

Before nature flipped Puerto Rico upside down and shook it, before the fields were ruined and the games were cancelled, baseball was in trouble there.

Suspended Two T - ball coaches, for their part in an Aug. 28 brawl in which nearly two dozen adults stormed the field during a Miami Friends Baseball Association game and began fighting over an umpire's call as the four - and five - year - old players watched.

And Jack Gibbs tells in hushed tones of a certain baseball game he remembers: «Mike was playing center field and a guy hit a terrific smash out toward center and Mike started running.

It's one of the scariest scenes in baseball, Blue Jays starter J.A. Happ was hit squarely in the head by a line drive off the bat of Tampa Bay Rays» Desmond Jennings in the second inning of Tuesday's game a Tropicana Field.

Unlike baseball where the home team receives the last at bat of every game, there is no tangible in - game advantage to home field advantage in football with the exception of crowd noise.

Today, in London alone there are 380 soccer fields, and the attendance last season at games played by teams of Great Britain's four major leagues was more than 34 million — more than twice as many as attended major league baseball games in the U.S. this year.

Jersey City has had minor league baseball teams intermittently since 1878 and has fielded some noteworthy players, such as George Stovey, a black pitcher who won 35 games in 1886, and George (Twinkletoes) Selkirk, the Yankee who was nicknamed after a Jersey show girl.

Baseball can work around rain because the fields are state of the art and can generally get a game in despite mucky weather.

WHAT YOU DID N'T KNOW: Trask is a gamer on the baseball field as well as in his own room.

This decrease in drag causes the baseball to travel farther which explains why games are so high - scoring in Coors Field where the elevation is 5,280 feet.

Garcia will be competing all summer long as a member of the Auburn Wildcats, a college wooden - bat league baseball team that plays its home games at James Field in Auburn.

On Sunday, having moved back west to Minneapolis and following the morning's training session, Hazard joined Asmir Begovic, Thibaut Courtois, Cesar Azpilicueta, Pedro and Cesc Fabregas in attending a baseball game at nearby Target Field.

Ridgeland Common, one of the district's major athletic facilities, with baseball fields that serve most of its adult softball league games, was identified as needing improvements by the district in 2007 after officials completed a conditions study on its facilities.

The fields there are so shoddy that the team has had to play most home games on baseball diamonds they made themselves on open space elsewhere in the park.

I sat in the bleachers at Wrigley Field for years and was surrounded by astute fans of the game of baseball, both young and old.

The grant will be used to establish a new baseball field and completely reconstruct an existing turf area that suffered from chronic flooding, resulting in numerous rained out baseball games.

An estimated nearly 2.7 million reported concussions occurred during that time — an annual average of 39.8 concussions per 100,000 times a player hit the field for practice or games — among athletes in nine sports: football, basketball, soccer, baseball or wrestling for boys, and basketball, soccer, softball and volleyball for girls.

If you spend all your time practising bunting, there is no time left to practise hitting, fielding, and pitching which matter far, far more in the game of baseball.

Over the weekend, one of the biggest headlines in the baseball world was that of Andrew McCutchen, center - fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates, having to leave the game Saturday versus the Cardinals, shortly after making a diving play in the outfield.

I remember playing baseball and sitting in the middle of the field drawing in the sand waiting for the game to be over; sports is something I wanted no parts of and still don't.

According to Meyers, «Professional baseball players use Spring Training to get in shape and tune up their game before they hit the field on Opening Day.»

Baseball: Baseball, game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine players each on a field with four bases laid out in a diamond.

The players do nt look anythin like themselves, the fielding is soo slow and rocky, i wish i never bought this game and to 2k sports... stop making baseball games and let EA do it right cause ive never been more disappointed in my life about a video game than this one, PLEASE BRING BACK MVP, FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYTHING, MVP 2005 for regular xbox blows away MLB 2k6 for 360, so get rid of these poorly made games cause nobody likes them

Even baseball fans will be sorely disappointed in how the game is depicted, with almost no adherence to any known rules (the Benchwarmers only field three players), while the games themselves have no real rooting interest, concocted merely to show more pratfalls, players getting injured, and bats flying out of the park into vehicles or people.

For Love of the Game — The on the field details are phenomenal here in Costner's last baseball outing, playing an aging pitcher toying with the elusive perfect gGame — The on the field details are phenomenal here in Costner's last baseball outing, playing an aging pitcher toying with the elusive perfect gamegame.

Despite the cameo James Earl Jones makes late in the game (no pun intended), if you're in the market for a movie about fathers, sons, and the national pastime, best just to stick with that other sepia - tinged baseball reverie in which Jones appears — Field of Dreams, of course.

He made «Bull Durham» and «Field of Dreams» back - to - back in the late 80s, took a swing at golf with «Tin Cup» in the mid-90s, and returned to baseball «For the Love of the Game» at the end of that decade.

A stormy night changes their lives forever... In LOVE BATS LAST, (The Heart of the Game, # 1), the baseball diamond isn't the only field for all - star player Alex Tavonesi; he also runs his family's prestigious vineyard.

Ahh, the crack of the baseball bat, sitting in historic Wrigley Field enjoying a baseball game.

In 1974, the small greyhound lookalike and his owner brought a national baseball game to a complete stop by dashing onto the field and performing frisbee stunts.

Baseball fans rejoice at Petco Park, where you can enjoy the game in sophisticated style in the Western Metal Building lounges, or take in the innings from the Park ball field with your kids.

As a test this past season, fans watching a baseball game in Seattle's Safeco Field could also see the game on the DS, and order food and view statistics using the device.

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Pippin Barr goes «Strolling in the Zen Game Garden» and is inspired to consider strolling casually through video games more often: «What would it feel like to play Baseball Stars for the NES and to think about the smooth swing of the bat, the greenness of the field, the beauty in the curve of a pixellated pitch?

As for fielding, it is handled in a way that will be familiar to regular players of baseball games.

As the father of four boys who spends more time on youth baseball fields then any other adult in the United States, I was a bit dismayed to read about a 17 - year - old pitcher in Prince George's County, Md. who fractured his right arm while throwing a pitch in a baseball game — and then somehow obtained a $ 52,703 jury verdict against the tournament organizer for building a mound that was «too big and too deep.»

Skills relevant to this position and found on applicants» resumes include assisting the head coach in all aspects of the organization to ensure success on and off the field, leading practices and drills, teaching and instructing players on both fundamental and advanced skills of baseball, making «in - game» decisions, and determining starting lineups.