Sentences with phrase «getting hitters»

«Sarah is terrific at getting hitters in good situations and her overall ball control skills and volleyball IQ are already at a high level, which will benefit our team,» Theis said.

Keuchel, who had relied on elite control and getting hitters to put the ball on the ground in 2014 and 2015, saw his numbers worsen across the board in 2016.

One year you can't get a hitter out.

Sure, the whole thing is you're trying to get the hitter out with a baseball, but if you can fool him before you even throw the ball you've got a better chance.

If his slider and four - seamer come out of his hand looking the same, one stays up at the top of the zone while the other dives down and out, that's enough to get a hitter off balance.

So, I don't think he is a carrot to get a hitter of Votto's quality.

«We have to do something to get the pitchers to get the ball down, throw strikes and get hitters out.»

Not exact matches

Landing a major customer: Describe how you changed your sales process to allow you to compete with heavy hitters in your industry; share three stories about major sales that got away and what you learned from failing to reel them in; detail the steps you took to quickly ramp up capacity while ensuring current customers were still taken care of.

He leveraged the names of heavy - hitter clients to get extended payment terms from suppliers — even before he had clients.

Its sponsors, including heavy hitters like Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia and Y Combinator, pay $ 4,000 a year and get access to the results.

«Like a lot of very heavy hitters, they get older, they get a little more conservative, they start thinking about the kids.»

Eric Pineault is the designated hitter on the topic of financialization but I thought I might make a small contribution to get the discussion rolling.

Most hitters first encounter frustration with curveballs; I could never quite get around on good fastballs.

Solve for us the question of the reasonableness of athiesm, where you get something (big bang) from nothing — there must be a first cause of everything; explain implications of the anthropic principle and the wildly unprobablistic likelihood that our universe could even form in such a fashion as to be capable of sustaining life (which has, interestingly, your athiest heavy hitters (i.e. Dawkins, Schwartz, etc.) necessarily positing multiple universe theories to get around the near probablistic impossibility of all conditions be present at time of big bang for life to be possible without acknowledgement of a divine designing hand guiding the process); explain The probablistic impossibility of non-irreducibly complex basic cells (life) coming together spontaneously (DNA, cell membrane, etc), even the most basic, simple forms of life allowing for reproduction, metabolism, etc...

There was a distinct lack of talent 2015 - 2017 that can explain those years away, and this season is veeeeery young still, but we're already getting some of the same flashes of the last few years even though we now have talented hitters.

He's got a balk move to first, which means a speedy guy on first base, like, say, Rickey Henderson, with a lefthanded hitter at the plate, has to think for a second.

If they can get it to the catcher before the hitter touches home (we'll use a force play, here), it counts as a swing.

And while there might be defensive limitations and other concerns with a couple of these players, you can see how opposing pitchers wouldn't look forward to facing this troika after the first two hitters of the game get on.

If you want to get into the specialization of relievers, and how every modern hitter has it tougher than their predecessors because they have to face 99 - mph specialists and platoon - happy managers, this would also be the place to lodge that complaint.

a team shifts on a pull hitter and puts additional players on that side to gain an advantage and get a guy out — and that is perfectly fine.

Remember, Gattis doesn't have significant platoon splits, but it's also not going to matter here, as he gets intentionally walked to bring up another pinch - hitter, Cameron Maybin — it gets Kershaw a different matchup, and also, maybe more importantly, forces AJ Hinch to take Chris Devenski out of the game now and go to another pitcher in the bottom of the frame.

Senzatela has hitters sitting on his fastball and is getting hit hard.

Now we get to answer the question: What would happen if the smartest hitter alive got to impart his hitting wisdom on an eager, young team?

He seems to always get burned on his mistake pitches, and just can not put hitters away with 2 strikes.

Just a terrifying collection of young, imposing hitters who might keep getting better.

«To get his body going, he has to decide to swing so much earlier than most other hitters,» one rival scout said.

Mikolas has looked terrible so far, not because he can't get his pitches to work (well, partially), but because the pitches that worked in Japan, a largely contact league, don't work against patient MLB hitters that aren't looking to foul the ball away like they do in Japan.

And it's possible, if a little unlikely, that of the field of hitters over the next 15 or 20 years, no one will quite get to 500.

The good hitters are going to get their hits.

You can't let the hitter get on if you can help it.

Or sometimes you'll get behind a hitter like that and then try to come back, because that may be the best way to pitch to him, to throw what you're not expected to throw from behind.

He's what broadcasters, managers, and old - timey baseball people might call a «professional hitter,» which means that he gets paid money to play baseball.

So it's not the real good hitters you've got to get out.

NFL scouts say before his injury that he was a home - run hitter, a break - the - line - of - scrimmage - and - go back who rarely got caught.

Last season he had personal major league lows in home runs and RBIs, and at one point in September he got so fed up that he refused to enter a game as a pinch hitter.

My problem with AA's small talk about waiting for Acuña to get hot and the fans that are buying it is that every hitter goes through slumps, even Trout and roided up Barry Bonds.

These talent - heavy groups then ebb a bit until the afternoon, when more heavy hitters get the call on the first tee.

Now, we're in an offseason where a potential superstar like Shohei Ohtani is only getting the league minimum after signing with the Angels for a capped international bonus figure; where one of the very best hitters in the game, J.D. Martinez, still can't find a reasonable offer with less than two weeks to go before spring training; where Yu Darvish can't sign with either of the teams he would like to (the richest out there, the Yankees and Dodgers), despite their having a need for a starter of his caliber, because they «need» to clear salary in order to avoid paying the luxury tax.

This is the Rockies hitters getting dinged for the help they get from Coors Field, and this is the Rockies pitchers getting dinged because nobody remembers the hurt they get from Coors Field.

When the Rangers dealt for Hamels, it looked like a move for 2016, a trade to get an affordable ace to pair with the returning Darvish, supported by the burgeoning young hitters like Joey Gallo and Odor.

You may wonder why teams keep trading with Alderson, why his counterparts even get on the phone with him, go near him, lest they lose a limb and a leadoff hitter.

Lawton is a shrewd pickup because he gets on base -LRB-.366 on - base percentage) and allows manager Joe Torre to put Bernie Williams at designated hitter, Hideki Matsui in centerfield and Tony Womack on the bench.

«During the game, he told me: «We'll get him [Pitcher Jim McGlothlin, who was working on a three - hitter], and in the ninth I'll hit him for a homer.

The Giants had just lost one of their better hitters to a PED suspension, and the Dodgers were willing to pay a $ 150 million finder's fee to get one of the better first baseman in baseball.

In a Fenway Park rarity, Boston got a pair of complete - game victories while sweeping a doubleheader from Texas, Reggie Cleveland prevailing 3 - 2 and Luis Tiant tossing a three - hitter while winning 2 - 0.

«Some players are wonderful hitters of the ball, but they can't figure out ways to get out of trouble, «says Palmer.

then he K's the 8 and 9 hitter — no big surprise, and i thought we were gonna get out of it.

A leadoff hitter needs to get on base first.

Also, I would understand if we were talking about Moylan getting shelled by LHB, but I'm not progressive enough to excuse walks just because the hitter was a lefty.

Before his career imploded 20 years ago in a cloud of cocaine and alcohol, the tall, slim righthander won 67 games, threw a five - inning no - hitter, appeared in the 1983 NL All - Star Game and made a name for himself — Perimeter Perez — by missing a start after getting lost driving to his home ballpark.