Sentences with phrase «hit flying balls»

Or, you could just build an empty amphitheater and hit flying balls with shields.

George Springer hit a fly ball to center, and it took a nifty sliding catch from Chris Taylor to turn it into an out, but it's an out.

In the first, the score was 4 - 4 in the ninth when Pirate Ed Ott led off by hitting a fly ball to right center.

While Bryant's propensity to hit fly balls has led to his home run hitting ability, Goldschmidt's inability to lift the ball last season hurt his numbers.

Orioles» Robert Andino hit the fly ball that made Moustakas, left fielder Alex Gordon, and shortstop Alcides Escobar converge to foul territory.

Yasiel Puig has become known for flipping his bat after hitting home runs, sometimes even after hitting fly balls.

Yasiel Puig loves to flip his bat, even after hitting fly balls to center field.

He's hitting fly balls at near his career - peak rate, and his home - run - per - fly - ball percentage (14.6 % through Sunday) is back where it was before the shoulder injuries took away his sock.

A change to the seams has reduced air resistance on baseballs, and between that and the sudden desire of so many players to hit fly balls, we've got ourselves a whole bunch of dingers we didn't have even just a few years ago.

Pitch # 6: Carlos Correa hits a fly ball that scrapes the surface of the sky before landing in Crawford Boxes, home run, Astros lead 11 - 8.

Not exact matches

LF — nice game by Parra (3 hits tonight) and some nice D — well done CF — not much out of Desmond tonight RF — Only offense of note tonight provided by CarGo — HR and sac fly — nice to see him play well UTIL — Valaika PH and hit the ball hard — just right at Difo at 2B.

Utilize his strengths — hitting line drives / fly balls and his speed — I would try him in the # 2 spot.

So let's just see if he's been hitting more homers on those fly balls...

It is not a catch if a fielder touches a fly ball which then hits a member of the offensive team or an umpire and then is caught by another defensive player.

Next time down the court, First Sergeant dribbles the ball up and lets fly a 30 - footer that hits nothing but net for the game.

Then Charlie (King Kong) Keller — «Lord, how that sensitive man hated that nickname,» says Henrich — lofted a high fly ball to rightfield that hit the screen above the 19 - foot concrete fence, then rolled lazily down the wall to the concave bottom for an easy double.

Reiser, the fiery Pistol Pete who tried unsuccessfully to run through outfield walls in pursuit of fly balls, led the league in hitting -LRB-.343), doubles (39) and triples (17).

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

The two offenses hit an almost identical rate of fly balls, with L.A. a few decimal points ahead.

Cubs outfielders Micah Hoffpauir (left) and Sam Fuld crashed into each other and the ivy - covered wall at Chicago's Wrigley Field on Sept. 30 while trying to field a fly ball hit by the Pirates» Andrew McCutchen.

Among other appeal plays are a batter hitting out of turn and a runner tagging his base after a fly ball is caught.

-- all said in a somewhat restrained fashion, since in an earlier inning Williams had hit a long fly ball that Gowdy had described as if it were going into the seats.

Plus, Morrison changed his approach to hit more fly balls.

He hit it so ferociously that the keeper stood no chance, and throws a hopeless arm up as the ball flies by.

Jacoby Ellsbury hit a deep fly ball to center field with the bases loaded in the third inning, but Carrera, who is replacing recently traded Austin Jackson, made the diving catch to save multiple runs from scoring.

Springer flies out to center field, and Chris Taylor didn't even almost get hit in the face with the ball this time.

Two weeks ago in Baltimore, Rader tore into the umpires when third base ump Jim Joyce ruled that a fly ball hit down the leftfield line by the Orioles» Mike Devereaux was fair, a two - run homer that decided the game.

The Sox sucked all series trying to get a hit or fly ball when they could have won the first two games but failed miserably.

I had 200 yards on the 18th hole and I hit just a little 8 - iron and that flew flag high, so the ball was traveling.»

Curry hit shots from everywhere, Harrison Barnes flew in for myriad offensive rebounds and, after turning the ball over nine times in the first half, Golden State only coughed it up twice in the quarter.

When Ertz's hands hit the ground, the ball popped lose and flew up into the air.

«If his ball had been four yards to the left it would have hit me on the fly.»

A nine - iron sent the ball into the cup on the fly without hitting the pole, and without use of a putter on the green.

Bo has beaten out routine ground balls to shortstop, hit a broken - bat grand slam homer over the centerfield fence in Royals Stadium and run down a fly ball in Yankee Stadium that Gardner insists no other leftfielder he has ever seen could have reached.

Before 1898, a player earned a steal not only in the traditional way but also by taking an extra base on a hit — i.e., reaching third from first on a single — or on an out, a fly ball for instance.

After the Instructional League, Bo returned to Auburn, where he worked out with the track team, spent hours hitting and catching fly balls, and fended off calls from new Tampa Bay coach Ray Perkins.

The ball flew in the air and made it to the end zone it hit a few people's hands and bounced around before finally falling to the ground..

«At first,» says the Royals» George Brett, with whom Mattingly is often compared, «he was one of those guys who seemed to hit a lot of lazy fly balls against lefthanders.

A corner was swung in and after being headed back into the area, Gretar Steinnson hit the ball on the volley and it flew into the net.

Goalkeeper Leandro Chichizola came flying out of his box to clear a ball ahead of Suarez, and as he blocked the ball it rose up and hit his outstretched arm.

England were in full pursuit of an equaliser, and after 55 minutes Danny Welbeck did superbly to nick the ball off Emre Can on the byline and tee up Henderson, only for his effort from 12 yards to hit Jonas Hector and fly over.

Former Met and Dodger and now Yankee Darryl Strawberry took this languid fielding style further still, and even today can sometimes be seen loping off in the general direction of a fly ball hit during the 1986 World Series.

A dodge ball breaks a window, flies out a door, and hits a man in the head (he is unharmed).

This game still uses a overly simplified hitting system that randomly decides if your swing generates a fly ball or a ground ball.

In the final score, catching a fly ball is the equivalent of hitting a solo home run.

When playing a computer character, you keep hitting back and forth until you charge up your special power smash, then you let it fly, only to have the computer use their special power save and hit the ball back from anywhere on the court.

A ball will fly in a direction, and your goal is to move to where the ball is headed and hit it back.

REAL PRACTICE MODE: The situational hitting and fielding drills are helpful, but I would also like to just set it to specific pitch type (s), field grounders, shag fly balls and practice that until I feel I'm ready to play a game.

Be careful though, as the wrecking ball will fly off around the stage destroying everything it hits... including you!

The ball reacts how you think it should — whether it's curving down quick because you hit the top of the ball and gave it down spin, or hitting second base on a grounder and going flying in a different direction.