Sentences with phrase «getting leadoff»

He's been getting leadoff hits, but not this time.

The Yankees got their leadoff hitter aboard again against Carrasco, but Brett Gardner immediately hit into a double play.

Not exact matches

He gets the extra-base hit he needs with a leadoff double, and then is immediately driven in when the Dodgers can't complete a play at first on a grounder by Alex Bregman, instead throwing it away.

Tanaka recovers from the leadoff walk, getting Correa to ground out to short, and that's the end of the Astros» first - inning scoring streak.

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.

A leadoff hitter needs to get on base first.

He's a really aggressive hitter and a big plus in the leadoff spot... I'm trying to understand how, after all their moves this winter, the Jays didn't get a closer.

It'll take exactly one leadoff single in the bottom of the first of Game 3 to get it there.

That pitch was thrown, following about 150 others, to the White Sox leadoff hitter in the ninth inning, proof, as beleaguered major league hitters had long suspected, that the Ryan Express runs faster the later it gets.

During spring training Twins utilityman Denny Hocking informed leftfielder Jacque Jones, the team's newly minted leadoff hitter, that he was going to keep track of how often Jones started a game by getting on base.

A Kevin Chappell half point in the leadoff match got the USA inches closer, and then Daniel Berger getting Kim dormie with two to play made it official.

So... I just got done playing a three game series against the Mets and Beltran batted leadoff and Cliff Floyd second!