Sentences with phrase «good game of baseball»

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.

The MLB Players Association's job is not to protect or better the game of baseball.

Not exact matches

Of the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he coulOf the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he coulof the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he coulof the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he coulof thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he could.

For at least 33 percent of every game, the Yankees will have three pitchers among the best in baseball at limiting runs.

Just pointing out the streaky nature of baseball and the reality of what this team was last year... an average team for 93 games then an extremely good team for 69 games plus the playoffs.

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.

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.

In five days as a major leaguer, the author saw the splendors of baseball — and its hard reality — from the best perspective: inside the game

They're playing much better baseball than you would suspect given their run differential, too: the Giants have given up at least 10 runs in four games this year, losing all of them by a combined score of 51 - 20.

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.

Unless you're some sort of phenom, odds are good that if you are headed to a quality four year baseball program, you're not going to see a lot of the field for the first two years; you may possibly even redshirt as a freshman and not get any game action in at all.

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.

Well, the Cubs are about as up against a wall as you can be in this here game of baseball, down 3 - 0 to a Dodgers team that had everything go right in Gamgame of baseball, down 3 - 0 to a Dodgers team that had everything go right in GameGame 3.

And we might know by the fourth inning of Game 4 if it's the good kind of baseball.

The regular White Sox lineup is one of the most impressive in baseball — they can hit (well), run (very well) and field (beautifully), and the big - three pitching staff of Pierce, Harshman and Donovan will win a lot of games.

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.

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:

This Little League Umpire calling the Australia - Puerto Rico game has to be one of the best umpire's in all of baseball...

He entered Game 7 in the sixth inning and shut down one of the best lineups baseball has seen in years.

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.

The pitching got better after the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins passed the tough 17th inning of the longest game in all baseball history

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.

Still, if you care about baseball, this latest book and his first two together constitute the best history of the game's last 15 years.

If you had designs on a think piece about the Death of the All - Star Game and What It Means For Baseball, well, have at it.

I am a baseball fan, and I shall get much more from the game because of your articles, and Mr. Riger's drawings (SI, March 31) are — well, let's just say they are perfection.

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.

Rose may be advanced in baseball years, but the best he could do as a younger man was a streak of 25 games in 1967.

Johnny Manziel isn't just good at making headlines for partying in Las Vegas or taking a bunch of girls to a baseball game.

While probably best known for his baseball books (including Summer of»49 and October 1964), his chronicle of the Portland Trail Blazers» 1979 — 80 season, The Breaks of the Game, is still considered by many as the best book ever written about the NBA.

The Dodgers won 104 games and finished with the best record in baseball, but the Diamondbacks won 11 of the two teams» 19 meetings during the season.

It was a good game, followed by a good baseball week — one of heroics, arguments and oddities.

The best seats in baseball are still at Tiger Stadium, maybe 10,000 of them that put the spectator closer to the game than he would be at any other stadium.

Prior to taking over the office as baseball's latest commissioner, Manfred worked alongside Selig in introducing the pitch clock, as well as creating ways of speeding up and modernizing the game.

On Sept. 4, to the cheers of fellow inmates wishing him well, Dennis Dale McLain, 43, walked out of the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Ala., where he had just finished serving almost as many months in prison (29 1/2) as games he had won pitching (31) for the Detroit Tigers in 1968 — the year he was the dominant player in baseball, the American League's Most Valuable Player and winner of its Cy Young Award.

With arguably the best minor league system in all of baseball, it's not surprising that the Cubbies are projected to win an additional nine games this season.

BASEBALL — The Toronto Blue Jays held a three - games - to - two lead over the Kansas City Royals in their best - of - seven American League Championship Series, and the St. Louis Cardinals led the Los Angeles Dodgers by the same three - games - to - two margin in the National League playoffs (page 36).

Because it turns out Williams is one of their five best options to start baseball games, apparently.

That's an excellent comp for Buxton, as far as raw tools go, and Dawson was one of the better prospects in the game at the time, rushing through the minors after coming out of baseball powerhouse Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

The Chicago Cubs owned the best record in baseball through the first 30 games of the season at 24 - 6.

The Nationals have a 10.5 - game lead in their division and boast one of the best records in baseball, but sharp action has been taking their opponent this evening.

Paige pitched one of his best games as a Marlin, in a repurposed stadium that wasn't meant for baseball.

To go back to that Koskie tweet from the eighth inning for a moment, let's just point out how hilarious it would be if MLB went back to the pre-World Series baseballs for a night just to get people to stop talking about how slick the balls are in the World Series, and the result is a 3 - 1 game where suddenly all of the awful pitchers can go back to being good enough.

A group of Scouts Gathered behind home plate before a Royals - Red Sox game this spring and determined that 1) the American League West is the best it has ever been: 2) the AL West is stronger than any division in baseball in the last 10 years; and 3) the AL West has the three best teams in baseball: Oakland.

It's why «When The Game Stands Tall,» a movie based on the De La Salle football program and its coach Bob Ladouceur, is one of the most anticipated movies in the Bay Area since... wait for it... «Moneyball,» which was based on the Oakland A's — currently the best team in baseball, by the way.

Make your jokes about the «Big Game» nickname or the handful of poor playoff starts if you must, but you should also recognize that James Shields just had a run as one of the best pitchers in baseball for four years.

Baseball rule 21 (f) forbids activities «not in the best interests of [the game].»

But board member Roy Sues said that idea was impractical, considering the amount of space available at the park as well as the possible interference with league baseball games.

Some of the outdoor games like softball, baseball, wiffleball are good for your child exercise.

New York - produced goods like beer and wine, as well as agriculture products, have been sold for the last several years under the Taste NY banner at a variety of events and attractions in the state, including minor league baseball games and entertainment events produced by Live Nation.