Sentences with phrase «games of baseball on»

The Nintendo Switch's specific draw is the ability to play quick games of baseball on - the - go.

Ever since the first baseball game on the Playstation 2, EA has been working and striving to innovate the game of baseball on the consoles.

Not exact matches

«Baseball games are uniquely engaging community experiences, as the chatter and rituals in the stands are often as meaningful to fans as the action on the diamond,» Dan Reed, Facebook's head of global sports partnerships, said in a statement.

Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

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.

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He'd been watching a baseball game on television the night before and noticed in the background a child walking down an aisle carrying a glass of beer.

While he makes a point of attending his son's hockey and baseball games, he takes conference calls on the field when necessary.

Maybe if he bets on a baseball game we can keep him out of the hall of fame.

Going to church on a sunday is as exciting as watching the 162nd baseball game of the year between two teams who have missed the playoffs... what's the point?

«Football has overtaken baseball as the spectator sport of choice in the United States, and pizza usually is on the game day table when friends and family gather to cheer on their favorite teams,» he said in a statement.

Blame it on the two working parents, the baseball games, or just plain lack of inspiration.

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

Cincinnati Reds infielder Scooter Gennett became the 17th player in baseball history to hit four home runs in one game, clubbing a quartet of home runs against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.

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.

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.

During Friday night's Baltimore Orioles — Kansas City Royals game, the dangers of being on a field during a baseball game...

When I turned on a full menu of baseball games on MLB.tv, my eyes were never drawn to Twins - Angels.

In fact, there wasn't much to be gained from it unless you liked giving people the pleasure of watching a good game on Sundays and enjoyed the idea that your town might come to be known all across America for its marvelous baseball team.

My point is, every game that is not a win brings out the crowd of critical guys who only comment on Noles Baseball when we lose (particularly to UF, when we are not remotely projected to win).

Seems most of the serious negative FSU Baseball posters come on here to comment only when we lose a game, but never show up when the Noles win a game.

Yet besides Yu Darvish's collapse (which itself was the Hangover 2 of the series since basically the same thing happened four games prior) and Springer's dirt - on - the - grave home run (which was the second season of Stranger Things of the series because it had all happened before but not in quite the same way) there weren't any events that baseball had never seen before to actually merit the anxiety that seeped from this game.

Harvey's Legacy Harvey Haddix, who died of emphysema last week at age 68, will forever be remembered for the 12 innings of perfect baseball he threw for the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 26, 1959, arguably the best - pitched game in history.

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.

«I have run into fans on the street who said they hated the game of baseball because of what we did to it [during the strike in 1994],» McGwire said last week.

It would be nice to be able to get value out of switching on whichever game has the best or most interesting players at any given time, though on the other hand baseball probably saps enough of my productivity when I'm watching / following at most one game per day.

His story strains credulity: After graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to Texas A&M and swore off the game; underwent treatment for drug abuse and depression; embarked on a four - year odyssey around the country in search of spiritual understanding before he was led back to baseball; was drafted in the 23rd round in 2010; then made the Braves» Opening Day roster a year after starting the»12 season in high A ball.

Puerto Rico is one of the two teams in the World Baseball Classic championship game, as they'll take on the United States Wednesday night.

Even before that game, Beane had put all of baseball on notice by declaring, «We think this will be our worst club over the next five years.

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.

And if teams are wrong — if the import business brings more Ariel Prietos than Hideo Nomos — baseball, already suffering from a lost generation of good young pitchers, will continue to look more like the All - Star Game's home - run - hitting contest on a daily basis.

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.

• Mayock, a college safety at Boston College, on his draft day — April 29, 1981, when he was chosen in the 10th round, by the Steelers, 265th overall, just 257 picks after a slightly more famous defensive back in the draft, Ronnie Lott: «I was the captain of the Boston College baseball team, and we had games on both days.

Everyone's making mock drafts — I always make mock schedules Based on past schedules which usually show some tendencies, as well as the opponents hometown baseball teams» schedule (to avoid home games for the same day for both the baseball and NFL team of a given city if possible), this is how our 2018 looks like to me:

As a sportswriter, much of Barbara's output has been devoted to baseball players, distance runners, racing drivers, game wardens and other familiar characters on the American sporting scene.

Vanderbilt University captured their first ever baseball NCAA National Title on Wednesday night after beating Virginia in Game 3 of the College World Series 3 - 2.

Vanderbilt University captured their first ever baseball NCAA National Title on Wednesday night after beating Virginia in Game 3 of the...

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.

Although the sport of baseball continues to be healthy, MLB commissioner Robert Manfred shared his thoughts Sunday on how to keep the game relevant in the future.

While baseball players ask out of games when they get blisters, and football players sit on the bench when they suffer turf toe, NHL players continue to play through pain.

On television ESPN filled airtime — the network lost eight football games, three baseball games and 10 hours of golf, among other programming — by running a daylong SportsCenter that focused on cancellations and stadium securitOn television ESPN filled airtime — the network lost eight football games, three baseball games and 10 hours of golf, among other programming — by running a daylong SportsCenter that focused on cancellations and stadium securiton cancellations and stadium security.

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

Joe has upheld the rules of fair play for more than 5,000 Major League Baseball games, and is on his way to the record for most career games ever worked by an MLB umpire.

That is why the Little League Baseball and Softball organization has established maximum pitch counts, or limits on the number of throws a pitcher can make in a game, and how many days of rest pitchers need between the days that they pitch.

The benefit of this is that you can more lucrative lines on favorites, but because baseball and hockey are such low - scoring games, this can be a risky proposition.

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.

We caution that, although these results are based on thousands of spring training games, this is a smaller sample size relative to our complete baseball database (which now covers almost 20,000 data points over eight seasons).

In fourth place, 11 1/2 games behind the Phillies on Aug. 12, Pittsburgh had nearly made one of the most dramatic comebacks in baseball history.

He'd played on a baseball team in Australia, where parents applauded and cooed, «Awwww, bad luck, mate,» whenever a boy or girl on his team swung and missed by a foot — and he'd played on a traveling AAU baseball team in the U.S., where parents stormed the dugout and seethed at coaches for pulling their sons out of games so benchwarmers could have a chance.