Sentences with phrase «from umpires»

The next presentiment that the pitcher had to deal with was the flurry of activity from the umpires as Aaron left the on - deck circle and approached the plate.

The fallout from the umpires union's ill - conceived 1999 mass resignation continued last month, when an arbitrator in Philadelphia declared that Major League Baseball must take back nine of the 22 umps who lost their jobs.

The day that Max Patkin stops kissing base runners or crawling through catchers» legs or covering himself with dirt or getting the heave - hohoho from umpires, chances are that's the day he takes the Big Pratfall.

Last year Juan Marichal saw this activity, the plate umpire reaching in a special ball bag at his waist to introduce a special ball to the game, and not being aware of the procedure, Marichal felt that he was the victim of some odd plot, that perhaps the ball he would get from the umpire was going to pop in two and emit smoke as he gripped it for his screwball.

After giving up a solo shot to Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Dom Brown, Miami Marlins pitcher Alex Sanabia was spotted delivering some of his saliva to the fresh ball he received from the umpire and rubbing it in.

After giving up a game - tying grand slam to Toronto's George Bell in 1986, a frustrated Righetti took a new ball from the umpire and hurled it more than 300 feet over the rightfield fence at Exhibition Stadium.

Not exact matches

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

I will start by saying that I have been an umpire for over 20 years, umpired 100s of games from Little League to Junior College and I would guess that I have made an obstruction call in less than 1 % of those games.

No other umpires, no other needed input from the peanut gallery, no instant replay to see if God got the call right.

I've umpired for 10 + years from doing everything from little league to JUCO, as well as having attended Evan's Florida school and taught multiple clinics for local officials.

To Melancthon he revealed in a letter of the same date that he was not well, suffering from heart trouble, that he was upset by the arguments he was having to umpire and wanted to be shot of the whole thing as soon as possible.

Also this afternoon, Coles succeeded in getting an order from the national industrial umpire, Fair Work Australia, to prevent any further industrial action breaking out at either Goulburn or its Eastern Creek distribution centre in Sydney.

But if the umpire didn't see that split - second separation from the white square, then neither did we.

The plate umpire stands there behind that balloon and calls every pitch from the same angle.

This event could not have run without our Senior Umpire, David Locke, and our brilliant first aiders from Epione Medical Services.

Manager Gil Hodges, who had complained about Hamilton earlier this season (SI, July 31), bolted from the dugout and jawed with Plate Umpire Jim Odom.

The best position to see the arm tangle is from the former position of the umpire behind the defensive line, but he's no longer there.

Five days later he was banished from a game, fined and suspended for three games for pushing the plate umpire after a third - strike call.

Sure, the call went your way, but somewhere deep down, you know the Red Sox sweeping the Rockies was retribution from the baseball gods, a punishment for benefiting from the interference of an umpire who ended a game that seemed like it was never going to end, that would probably still be being played right now if not for that botched call because dear lord this game had everything but also was great mostly because it was terrible.

In 1935, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the baseball commissioner, barred Husing from covering the World Series for having called the umpiring in the previous Series «some of the worst I've ever seen.»

Piniella was ejected from another game for allegedly throwing his bat in the direction of home - plate Umpire Bill Deegan.

Easley, acquired from the Yankees in the Rick Rhoden trade, has a split - finger that» umpire Frank Pulli says is as good as any.

Accusations and counter-accusations issued from the two clubhouses and the umpires» dressing room afterward.

The runner from first simply fields the ball and tosses it to the second base umpire.

In today's expansion - diluted market it is often possible to regard the major league catcher as a sort of convenience, somebody to stop the ball from hitting the umpire when the batter misses it and to get the ball back to the mound.

Tim Welke, secretary - treasurer of the World Umpires Association, the new union that rose from the ashes of the Richie Phillips - led group that collapsed after the resignation fiasco, says such a small number easily could be absorbed by Major League Baseball.

There were some wild moments like Chris Taylor's hat saving an Astros run from scoring, an attempted pick off in extra innings hitting an umpires leg instead of going all the way to the outfield, or Yasiel Puig almost making an amazing diving catch but inadvertently handing the Astros a ground rule double instead.

Managers may now invoke instant replay from the dugout and will no longer be required to approach the calling umpire to challenge a call.

is that all calls are left to the plate umpire, but that the umpire is provided input from the automated system.

According to a report from the Dallas Morning News» Evan Grant, the World Umpires Association is not too happy with this decision.

The tirade began from Bogomolov Jr's when he took off his shirt, shook his opponents hand and then told the chair umpire to «Go F*ck Yourself.»

The above video comes from the Potomac Wiffle Ball League where a player from the Barnburner team hit the umpire right where it...

In the bottom of the eighth Frank Martinez, 40, was ejected from his seat behind home plate after Braves shortstop Edgar Renteria complained to umpires that Martinez was flashing a light in his eyes.

The tables below, which utilize closing lines from Pinnacle, display the five most profitable active umpires for home teams, road teams, underdogs, favorites, overs and unders since the start of the 2005 season.

Nice baseball recollection from the man: «I couldn't see well enough to play when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job — they made me an umpire.»

Chad Fairchild, home plate umpire, missed strike three from Craig Kimbrel hitting Nomar Mazara in the top of the ninth.

As the business of baseball evolved and the professional leagues stopped hiring castoffs from vaudeville, the umpire's apparel became less formal and more functional.

Imagine the satisfaction you'll feel when you eject your in - laws from your home this Thanksgiving while wearing this 100 % polyester knit umpire shirt.

The table below, which utilizes line data from the market - setting Pinnacle sportsbook, displays which umpires have been the most profitable for home teams.

That prompted the Saturday statement and action from major league umpires.

As seen on ESPN that afternoon, the Phillies will nip the Cubs 10 - 9 after the umpires disallow Jerome Walton's spectacular ninth - inning catch because his glove measures 12 1/16» from heel to tip.

The two boys starred in Little League, but Leo — because of his tendency to rail at umpires — watched the games from the family station wagon, parked across the street from the field.

For the purpose of uniformity, accountability and transparency, members from Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission who have representatives from every state of the federation were recommended, as umpires and arbiters of the Federation Account, to play prominent roles during the meeting of the State Joint Local Government Accounts Allocation Committee.

For instance, the federal legislature has, by these amendments entrenched extensive electoral reforms, including financial and administrative autonomy for INEC as well as freeing the electoral umpire from political manipulations.

Judges are umpires and that's a quote from a Chief Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Meanwhile, results from other local government have been announced by the electoral umpire earlier today.

These analyse the signals from the antennas and feed the data to both a voice synthesiser — that announces when the ball is out — and a hand - held computer on the umpire's chair.

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