Sentences with phrase «first plate appearance»

... Last week Willie McGee made his first plate appearance since his off - season knee surgery.

Not exact matches

It would also rank 25th over the last five years among first basemen with more than 1,000 plate appearances.

Added together, these plusses and minuses come out to 101; and this figure divided by five (for Mantle's five appearances at plate) gives 20 1/5 Mullen points as Mickey's average for each trip to the plate in the first game.

Miguel Santiago and Paris Rosenthal both reached base on each one of their plate appearances which was only accomplished by a handful of players on this first set of kickball games.

My issue with your theme is you are comparing 30 plus plate appearances this year to almost 400 last year, dismissing above average numbers as a fluke and stating that the first ten days of this season is the real deal.

Downing then started the season by reaching base in 21 of his first 28 plate appearances as a leadoff hitter for a.750 on - base percentage.

In my opinion, taking either of those guys with to Puerto Rico would be done as a human interest story, akin to when the Marlins gave Adam Greenberg an at - bat in 2012 after his career was derailed when he was beaned in the head in his first career plate appearance years earlier.

Acquired forthe second time by the Oakland A's, on May 3, Cust appeared in his first majorleague game in two years on May 6 — and in his fourth plate appearance launcheda pitch over left centerfield at Tampa's Tropicana Field.

The 27 - year - old Jones hasn't matched that goal — he had reached base 38 times in 111 first - inning leadoff plate appearances (34.2 %) through Sunday — but he has certainly energized Minnesota's offense.

He was one of the top pinch hitters in baseball, hitting.356 /.396 /.644 in 48 plate appearances, tied for first in MLB with four pinch - hit home runs and second with 13 RBI.