Sentences with phrase «great hitter»

This leads on investigation to other, far more striking, parallels in the lives of these two great hitters of the ball.

Even great hitters aren't immune to horrific slumps.

Blackmon — great hitter with now more RBI potential — perfect slot for him at # 3 Arenado — he is the no brainer # 4 hitter on this team CarGo — # 5 suits his hitting style perfectly Iannetta — good plate discipline and works the count — plus has power — nice # 6 option Parra — fits nice at # 7 or # 8 Desmond — puts a speed / pop bat towards the end of the line up — either # 7 or # 8

When New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi decided to bench star third baseman Alex Rodriguez in the 9th inning of a playoff game this season, he chose to replace one of the all - time greatest hitters in MLB history with Raul Ibanez, an aging pinch hitter.

That's why you see a lot of great hitters take a strike on two strikes and no balls, or two strikes and one ball, or three and two, because they've been fooled.

He hasn't done that, which is a further testament to how great a hitter he is.»

«I think you want hitters in the middle of your lineup who are flat - out great hitters, not just power hitters,» says Dodgers manager Don Mattingly.

One of the greatest hitters of the 1960s, the Pirates great enlisted in the Marine Corps after the 1958.

What I found equally interesting was his comparison a great hitter to the premier basketball and football players and, particularly, to golfers like Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus or Tom Watson.

We know that even the most majestic home run is as nothing in its vastness, that even the greatest hitter is a kind of Sisyphus, proudly indifferent to the divine mockery of that infinite horizon; and it is precisely this pathos that lends such moving splendor to those rare Homeric feats that linger on in our collective memory: Babe Ruth in Detroit in 1926, Frank Howard in Philadelphia in 1958, Mickey Mantle in New York in 1963, Frank Robinson in Baltimore in 1966...

Maybe Bobby Knight isn't a great basketball coach because he doesn't favor a zone defense, or maybe Babe Ruth wasn't a great hitter because he didn't bunt more often.

Hitting techniques are as personal as skating styles, but all great hitters share one attribute.

The greatest hitter and pitcher of the last 50 years, at least, are not in.

The Alabama product can cover deep, and he's a great hitter from linebacker depth up.

Here is a ball club with leadership and spirit, a great hitter, a tight infield, good run production — and the memory of how tough they made it on the Braves last year.

Not a great arm but a quick one; not a great hitter but good enough.

They're definitely in a rebuilding mode, but it's like the money was burning a hole in Peter Angelos's pocket... They got a great hitter, Jay Gibbons, in the Rule 5 draft, and he tore it up this spring.

For years he was mediocre, and then boom, he was a great hitter for a number of years.

Earned, hilarious hubris of the most magnificent order from one of baseball's greatest hitters.

Give the greatest hitters from the steroid era a shot at absolving themselves in a Home Run Derby to end all Home Run Derbies.

He was a great hitter for a pitcher, but he could have been a great hitter for a hitter if someone, somewhere, pushed him down a much different career path.

«We might have done the same with another great hitter, like [Jason] Giambi or Alex Rodriguez,» Black said.

trade him to the Angels for Maitan, who will develop into a great hitter and plague the Braves for ten years.

You see it in American Baseball a lot a great hitter or pitcher have lost their magic.

It's not a great comparison — Ruth was one of the greatest hitters of all time, and he stopped pitching to focus on hitting — but that's it.

This isn't an article to convince people who wouldn't vote for Martinez because he wasn't a great hitter for long enough.

The guy is a great hitter.

Bernsen: I was never a great hitter, and David told me to hit a line drive between second and third for one scene.

Statheads say the ideal spot is second, where a great hitter will get 15 — 20 plate appearances over a season that he wouldn't get batting third.

CECIL SMITH Ten - goal player San Antonio, Texas Tommy Hitchcock Jr., a great hitter who had everything.

The book is a defiant challenge to conventional wisdom that dominated professional baseball for most of the 20th century — that batting average is an accurate metric of batting performance, for example, or that RBIs can tell us who the greatest hitters are.

Be a great hitter so that everyone appreciates your performance in this game.

SG: I'm a baseball fan, and I remember Ted Williams said that when he walked down the street, he wanted people to say, «There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.»