Sentences with phrase «high fastball»

At the bottom of the screen is a meter, pressing R2 will deplete the meter, but slow down time, letting you crush that high fastball or strike out Miguel Cabrera with a nasty slider.

So there I was, applying a carefully concocted credit calculus to determine the positions of family, friends, and colleagues on my Acknowledgments slide, when my thesis committee decided to diverge from its steady diet of belt - high fastball «requirements» and toss me something with a little movement on it.

«He could handle a high fastball,» says Gene Mauch, his manager with the Phillies in the mid -»60s.

Pitchers had a focused gameplan; in particular, all the starters used the high fastball effectively against Angels hitters and neutralized their strengths.

I'd like to think that Arrieta literally thought «He'll never look for a belt - high fastball in the middle of the zone!»

The first pitch Hunter threw to him in the ninth was a high fastball.

Gomes, the hero of Game 2, ends up whiffing on a high fastball.

Gary Sanchez went down on the same high fastball Judge did, except this one was even higher.

Two weeks later Gattis tomahawked a 96 - mph, shoulder - high fastball from Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg for his fourth of the season.

It's one thing to take advantage of a player's injury when you're running on his arm or feeding him high fastballs, but it's another thing to mess him up with bunts, which are the province of sprightly ballplayers that nobody likes.

Not exact matches

He unbuckles hitters, especially righthanders, with a high - 90s fastball and a circuitous «front - door slider,» as Hickey calls it.

Hooton reared back and threw a fastball, his back arching like that of a high jumper trying to clear the bar.

Now, it's only two starts, but his fastball in terms of wSL / C (Fangraphs), sits at 3.37, which is three times the highest rate of his career and nearly a full three point jump over its career value of 0.47.

«That really starts with locating the fastball inside to lefthanded hitters or glove side to righthanded hitters,» Arrieta said when asked about the swings and misses and high strikeout total.

Reyes then threw a fastball that tailed back over the inside half of the plate, about thigh - high, and McGwire sent it sailing over the white hat of one of Major League Baseball's 40 special agents in the outfield seats, a detective from St. Petersburg, Fla., who resisted the urge to throw a hand up.

Young pitchers in particular tend to stray from the fastball, a habit formed in high school and college where hitters whip 28 - ounce aluminum bats.

And though sixweeks from turning 45, with leg muscles that twang like steel guitar stringsand a limited cache of high - caliber fastballs, Clemens still brings thesensibilities of a dictator to his job.

Fun Fact: Aaron Rodgers threw a fastball in high school that clocked at 90mph.

And this year he has pulled a low - and - inside Phil Niekro knuckleball for a homer; hit a high - and - tight fastball past Steve Carlton into centerfield to knock in a run in a 6 - 0, four - hit shutout of the Phillies; and, in another complete - game win, a five - hit shutout of the Mets, he got an RBI on a groundout after New York Pitcher Charlie Puleo had walked the Padres» No. 8 hitter intentionally.

In the pros, speed is fetishized by teams and fans alike, the reading on each pitch displayed right alongside the score in the corner of the TV, a CG flame occasionally flaring up when a fastball reaches the high - 90s or low - 100s.

Nelson already reaches the high 80s regularly and has good command of all four of his pitches — fastball, slider, changeup, and fork ball — which are made even harder to hit by his tall frame.

Actually, the [percentage of] fastballs thrown in the American League in those counts was about one percent higher.»

A fastball, on the other hand, travels through the air with backspin, which creates a higher pressure zone in the air ahead of and under the baseball.

«I wasn't busting them enough inside,» says Saberhagen, who throws fastballs on about 75 % of his pitches — a heater that averages about 90 mph, but, on occasion, has been clocked as high as 94.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Major League Baseball pitchers who throw a high percentage of fastballs may be at increased risk for Tommy John surgery, according to research at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

«Our findings suggest that throwing a high percentage of fastballs rather than off - speed pitches puts more stress on the elbow,» says Robert Keller, M.D., chief resident in Henry Ford's Department of Orthopedic Surgery and the study's lead author.