Sentences with phrase «game of baseball with»

City Field is another place to enjoy a good game of baseball with the Yankees or Mets.

City Field is another place to enjoy a good game of baseball with the Yankees or Mets.

For example, rather than sitting in front of the TV, a father might decide to play a little game of baseball with his son.

Not exact matches

Facebook has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to show 20 of the league's games live this season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world of live programming.

This week is packed with major sporting events, starting with the first official games of Major League Baseball's 2016 season on Sunday and Monday.

With Major League Baseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summerBaseball's All - Star Game and Home Run Derby officially in the books for this year, we have reached what baseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summerbaseball enthusiasts call the «dog days of summer.»

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.

With the first game of the World Series playoffs around the bend, it's hard not to feel the buildup of excitement for the baseball teams in the running.

The multibillion - dollar industry, where players draft fantasy teams for sports including football, basketball and baseball, has drawn increased scrutiny since last year with the attorneys general of several U.S. states, including New York, Illinois and Nevada, questioning the legality of the games.

Major League Baseball and the National Football League have lucrative contracts with the television networks and closely guard the airing of their games.

In fact, I would say that if the adoption curve of online retail were a baseball game, we might be mid-way through the second inning with almost the whole game ahead of us.

We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.

And along the same lines, if worship of God is to pervade everything in life, can't attending a baseball game with your family and friends also be true worship?

The driving force behind his league is the random roll of three dice which, together with some charts, approximates the actual occurrences of a baseball game.

Dan Gilgoff reported the indecent that Bruce Harper of the Washing Nationals was asked by a Torranto news reporter if he would be drinking any beer with his fellow baseball players in celebration of winning a game against the the Blue Jays and he replied that it was a «clown question».

And then there is that extended British family of children's games from which baseball drew its basic morphology (stoolball, tut - ball, and, of course, rounders); but these are only charming finger - paint renderings of the ideal, vague, and glittering dreams that the infant soul brings with it in its descent from the world above before the oblivion of adulthood purges them from memory; they are as inchoately remote from the real thing as a child's first steps are from ballet.

But there are families of language - games just as softball, Little League baseball, and professional baseball have similar rules with a few significant differences.

As the years rolled on, I found myself sticking around to watch baseball games with my brother, homework in hand of course.

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of tWith just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of twith another just a game back of them.

Baseball wants quicker games, but one of the changes the MLBPA nixed had to do with a smaller, higher strike zone that would have led to more offense.

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.

It was 10:53 p.m.. Under one of baseball's oldest rules the game was now official, four and a half innings having been completed with the home team ahead.

If baseball puts in a pitch clock, raises the strike zone, eliminates extensive mound visits, limits pitching changes, institutes a mercy rule, starts extra innings with a runner on second base, limits the number of pickoff throws, requires pitchers to face a minimum number of batters, limits defensive shifts, and institutes all sorts of other changes to speed the game up and improve quality of play, there might be improvements.

According to Major League Baseball, the standings at the start of Tuesday featured as much parity as we've had since 1995, with 18 teams within at least five games of a postseason berth.

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

As each round is only three games long for each team with a tiebreaker if necessary, starting out 1 - 0 is significant: that and a win in Friday night's head - to - head contest could be enough to propel one of these two teams to the World Baseball Classic semifinals.

He is a movie and baseball buff, and he recalls the film For Love of the Game, in which Kevin Costner played an aging Tigers pitcher who blocks out hostile crowd noise with a mantra of his own, Clear the mechanism.

Take the enjoyment millions of people get from watching a baseball game without a net and subtract from that the enjoyment they get from watching a baseball game with a net.

Major League Baseball in conjunction with the Miami Marlins agreed that it is in the best interest of our community to relocate this weekend's Marlins games against the Milwaukee Brewers to Milwaukee.

And there is the legend of the wealthy Alpine cattle rancher who loved both the game of baseball and his hometown with such consuming passion that in 1947 he built what is quite possibly the world's most beautiful ballpark.

Baseball was a little harder for him to figure out with some of the controls those early games had for fielding, but he knew how to pitch enough to offset that.

When I'm not talking, watching, or coaching baseball, or listening to MLB on Sirius XM, I'm just hanging out with my wife and kids most of the time, watching Alabama football (huge fan of the Tide, and that's where I started on SB Nation on Roll Bama Roll), or watching / reading Game of Thrones.

The Diamondbacks are on the verge of becoming baseball's latest Cinderella, sitting on a five - game lead in the NL West a year after finishing last with a 65 — 97 record.

So while tampering with a ball in baseball might result in a 10 - game suspension, it wouldn't lead to the kind of international incident we're seeing in cricket.

Despite how many teams are in this thing, four games isn't all that much with just under two months of baseball to go.

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.

And with Major League Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, in 1947.

Doc Medich, the Milwaukee pitcher, had walked Rickey Henderson on four straight balls in the third inning of the Brewers» game with the Oakland A's last Friday night in County Stadium, and now, reluctantly, he stood to become a part of baseball history.

But baseball starts almost every play in the game with a pitch (much like tennis starts every play with a serve), while plays in basketball originate in a variety of ways, and there is a constant and rapid change from offense to defense that can not be avoided.

A lot of baseball can happen in two weeks — six - game losing streaks, seven - game winning streaks, and injuries could ruin / improve the hopes of a team that felt differently on July 31 — so the idea is that with more teams deciding to sell, the trade deadline would be more exciting.

Understandably, it was probably a bit boring as it was just bullpen guys, and you are probably right with the players being «off», but I just think it was great, low - scoring game in front of a crowd that deserved a good baseball game after what they've been through.

Unless baseball eliminates commercials, with the players wearing ad - festooned jerseys like they were playing soccer, and moves the pitch clock to, like, six seconds, it will always be a game of preparation and waiting that's punctuated by bursts of action.

The 2018 Major League Baseball season gets started Thursday with a nearly full slate of games, including four nationally televised games on opening day.

It's time for baseball, in tandem with expansion, to focus on quality over quantity and reduce the number of regular season games so that (a) the front - end of the season is more likely to played under more favorable conditions than it currently is and (2) the determination of the sport's champion is played in conditions that showcase the championship and let it be determined without exposing those games to weather extremes.

ESPN's enhanced baseball score box (not to be confused with the network's new, indecipherable in - game box score) is another excess of an info - mad age.

Boston College's stretch - run offensive explosion (36 points per game in the second half of the regular season) still feels too good to be true, and a meeting with the Hawkeyes — traditionally a stylistic kindred spirit — inside a baseball stadium should remind the Eagles of the first - to -14-points thrillers from whence they came.

People often say that baseball is the most literary of sports — it's that game in which balls carom off walls, pitchers flirt with no - hitters and batters spit on outside sliders — and that may be true.

The All - Star Game is the only way to see the greats in a different context then, to share them with the rest of baseball.

«I do want to be remembered as someone who is madly in love with the game of baseball, someone who loves it at every level,» Rodriguez said.

The Mark Cresse School of Baseball was established in 1984 by then Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen coach, Mark Cresse, with the intention of providing the best fundamental training of the game of baseball to the youth of Orange County & ChinBaseball was established in 1984 by then Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen coach, Mark Cresse, with the intention of providing the best fundamental training of the game of baseball to the youth of Orange County & Chinbaseball to the youth of Orange County & Chino Hills.