Sentences with phrase «half plate appearances»

Clemente, who earned his 3,000 th hit in what would become the last plate appearance of his career, was killed in a plane crash while helping to deliver relief supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua in December of 1972.

From 1966 through 1969, Tommy Harper hit 27 home runs in 1,939 plate appearances.

Gomez now has 240 plate appearances with the Astros since coming over.

Still striking out in a quarter of his plate appearances.

It would also rank 25th over the last five years among first basemen with more than 1,000 plate appearances.

On one hand, that's over 66 plate appearances.

He had 38 career home runs, which was 2.2 percent of his 1,754 plate appearances.

Jaso surprised me, too, and seeing as he's never cracked 350 plate appearances in a season, I'm skeptical.

He's come to the plate 347 times this season, and in those plate appearances...

Adam Eaton, who logged just over 100 plate appearances in 2017 due to injury, will be back.

And Markakis hit three home runs in 686 plate appearances last year, which seems like a glitch that would get fixed with a software update.

There are an unlimited pool of pitchers like this — these two are just the ones who have played in the most games without a plate appearance.

He's appeared in 140 games, accrued 568 plate appearances, and batted.288 /.354 /.496 for a 122 OPS + in them.

Also, the league average doesn't matter because White comes nowhere near the necessary amount of plate appearances to qualify for it.

He had 2,500 plate appearances that suggested he hit like Mark Belanger, and then he had 260 that suggested he's hitting like Cal Ripken.

Four years, two shoulder surgeries, and 648 mostly unimpressive plate appearances later.

He's still shown enough patience to walk 31 times in 116 plate appearances, which suggests he'll go on a tear soon.

Neither one of them has had a plate appearance in the minors.

To avoid them for 43 innings in a row is a combination of skill and good fortune, like a slugger hitting a home run in four straight plate appearances.

Furthermore, Torreyes has a career 2.1 oWAR in those limited plate appearances.

Plus, there was the unfortunate matter of Eduardo Escobar's 377 lost plate appearances.

Neither Jonathan Papelbon nor David Robertson has ever had a plate appearance in the majors.

In his 31 games this season, he's batting.330 /.420 /.621, and has five homers and has been on - base after 27 of the 66 plate appearances he's had since July 27.

Kinsler had to reach 600 plate appearances to trigger a vesting clause that would guarantee him $ 11M.

The list of DHs with at least 500 plate appearances and an OBP under.275:

Miguel Santiago and Paris Rosenthal both reached base on each one of their plate appearances which was only accomplished by a handful of players on this first set of kickball games.

As a senior at Archbishop Mitty in 2016, Yeager led the Central Coast Section - champion Monarchs with 18 RBI while also scoring 14 runs and striking out just three times in 72 plate appearances.

In 46 plate appearances he has 11 hits, 8 walks, and 15 strike outs.

He was awful in a short stint as a rookie in 2013, and then had the worst OPS + of anyone with at least 400 plate appearances in 2014.

He could be replaced by players who need the plate appearances for development, like Jones, or Goodrum, or somebody brought up from toledo, like Stewart.

On McGwire's next three plate appearances, Harnisch and reliever Scott Sullivan threw a total of 13 pitches, all with ball number 2.

We have 3,000 plate appearances that suggest Stanton is one of the best power hitters of all time, and about 600 that suggest he's not the same player.

Maybe not in a fresh count, given Baez's issues making contact — he had already struck out 12 times in 29 World Series plate appearances before this one.

He got just 14 plate appearances all week and didn't make a start.

An NL team could carry an extra hitter and be more aggressive about pinch - hitting, and some teams might just want a designated pinch - runner who will play in more games than they'll log plate appearances.

Dunn hasn't hit a sacrifice fly ball since July 22, 2003 — a span of 1,005 plate appearances, the longest active streak.

Joseph has hit 15 dingers in just 244 plate appearances, so he certainly qualifies.

He was masterful in his pitch placement and his control, practically toying with batters as he crushed their dreams each plate appearance.

Forget Gattis's home runs, slugging percentage (through Sunday it was.593, fourth highest in the National League among players with at least 150 plate appearances) and the 6» 4», 235 - pound frame and compact, batting gloveless righthanded swing that exude old school strength.

The ugly stats (seven walks, 46 strikeouts in 152 plate appearances) underneath Randal Grichuk's surprising success suggest a minor correction is coming.

It's kind of amazing he has just the one walk given all those balls, but he's managed to recover when he loses control of the plate appearance, and that's why the Yankees have yet to score.

While it's noteworthy that he's three walks away from his career high — in 355 fewer plate appearances compared to last season — and the change in his approach could explain a lot, I'll err on the side of the previous five seasons.

During the just - ended baseball season, he played third base in all five junior high games, reaching base eight times, on two hits and six walks, in 10 plate appearances.

Not just a lot of dingers for a pitcher, either: in the last three seasons, he's hit 11 homers in 205 plate appearances, or one in 5.4 percent of his plate appearances, which is the same rate Mike Trout has over his last three campaigns.

My issue with your theme is you are comparing 30 plus plate appearances this year to almost 400 last year, dismissing above average numbers as a fluke and stating that the first ten days of this season is the real deal.

I'm still dubious because he really hasn't been more than mediocre offensively in 700 + plate appearances at AAA level.

He also had 0.5 fWAR in 150 plate appearances with that dismal bat, which tells me he's far superior to Frazier with the glove (small sample sizing warning)

He's limited to pinch - hit duties, and it's unclear how long that will be his role before he can try to help for four or more plate appearances per day instead of one timely one.

Downing then started the season by reaching base in 21 of his first 28 plate appearances as a leadoff hitter for a.750 on - base percentage.

He also struck out 117 times last year with just 19 walks in 408 plate appearances in Class - A last year.