Sentences with phrase «hits more home runs»

Sure some of the jokes go astray, but it swings at every quip tossed its way and hits more home runs than Barry Bonds or Babe Ruth combined.

If a baseball player uses steroids, he hits more home runs.

«I said that jokingly, but I hit more home runs in the game than I did in BP.»

Only five players had hit more home runs before turning 23, including Mel Ott, Frank Robinson, Eddie Mathews, and Alex Rodriguez.

Mike Trout will hit more home runs.

He hit more home runs in the first half than he ever hit in another season, and he ended his career by guiding Dante Bichette through Dodger Stadium.

Despite winning the All - Star Game MVP Award and hitting more home runs than an...

Mark McGwire is the only rookie to hit more home runs in a season than Judge, mashing 49 home runs in 1987 for the Oakland Athletics.

Want to improve your grip and wrist strength in order to hit more home runs, get more hits, strike out less, and just plain hit the ball harder next season?

GM needs to start hitting more home runs instead of being happy with second or third base.

You no longer see individuals batting 150 points above the league average, or players like Babe Ruth, who often hit more home runs than entire teams.

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The two Aarons hit more home runs than any other brother tandem in the Major Leagues (768 to be exact)-- the punch line being that Hank smacked 755 of those homers while brother Tommie hit just 13.

Not exact matches

A pattern of moderate, consistent profits is much more worthwhile over the long term than hit - or - miss profits from a few home runs.

«I wouldn't say it's a home run,» Ferrill says, «but there are a lot of singles being hit, which is great for franchisees,» and could portend more business to come.

«Replay will take on new meaning... as fans watch the games» best players hit towering home runs, make gravity - defying catches or turn acrobatic double plays — all from every conceivable angle, and in more detail than ever before,» Intel Corporation senior vice president Wendell Brooks said in an announcement.

One of my favorite investment strategies is the barbell strategy where I invest in lower risk companies or indices to hit singles and doubles while concurrently investing in more speculative companies to hit potential home runs.

The company isn't afraid to take risks, which means that it's going to sometimes strike out, but it's also much more likely to hit an occasional home run than companies that are less innovative and play it too safe.

Now, more than ever, don't accept a single when you can hit a home run.

Essentially, the more deals Ligand signs for its technology, the more chances it'll have to hit «home runs.»

I say it is humble but it was also the one that absolutely hit the spot, more than once, after coming home late from long days of work, hard runs, and commuting.

Roger Maris played in 10 more games in his record - setting 61 - homer season than Babe Ruth did, and he hit just one more home run.

My original question was if more home runs were hit by rookies in 2017 by percentage than any other year.

Gabrielson is built more like a full - grown Kodiak than a cub and hit some impressive drives in spring training, yet his home run totals in five years as a pro are not noteworthy.

The Pirates were so incensed at the incredible unrighteousness of it all that Groat hit a home run (two more and he will equal 1958's output), Roberto Clemente hit a home run to tie up the game, and El Roy Face, who does this almost automatically, came in from the bullpen to relieve Haddix and stop the Braves with two scattered hits the rest of the way.

The first is that Bonds hit 73 home runs in 2001, which is more home runs than anyone else has hit in one season.

Home runs now occur more frequently than double plays, and nearly half the regular players hit at least 20 dingers (43 % of the players with 400 at bats did so last year).

Someone who hits 62 home runs will need a dozen more to break The Real Home Run Record, even if you're already more impressed by the new accomplishmhome runs will need a dozen more to break The Real Home Run Record, even if you're already more impressed by the new accomplishmHome Run Record, even if you're already more impressed by the new accomplishment.

Which is why it's perfectly fine to believe something like, «If Giancarlo Stanton hits 62 home runs, that will impress me more than when Barry Bonds hit 73.»

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.

Because Tim Tebow falling through a trap door in the wrong on - deck circle would do more to grow the sport of baseball than Mike Trout hitting 60 home runs in the same week.

It's nothing against Joc, since he hit a very worthy home run that would have gotten far more attention if it didn't happen so (relatively) early in the game or if it had been one of three home runs instead of one of eight.

Through Sunday, the Astros had allowed more home runs (82) than any other team in the National League; the Rangers had hit the most (86) in the majors.

It was Kirk Gibson limping off the bench to hit his home run — and doing it five more times.

Sammy Sosa would hit 598 home runs after that swing, and he would certainly have more than a hundred near - misses.

As we indicated earlier, no hitter in baseball is projected to hit more than 41 home runs and no batter recorded more than 40 home runs last season.

The Angels and Giants clubbed more home runs (11) than had been hit in the first two games of any World Series, prompting both sides to suspect that the specially marked baseballs were harder, smaller and livelier than the ones used in the regular season.

Think he liked messing with us more than hitting home runs (laughs).

Before»89 he had hit no more than eight home runs in a major league season.

It's true that he crushed 40 home runs last season, but that was only the second time he's hit more than 30 home runs in a season.

But Mike Moustakas took care of things with only a little more than a week to go in the season, hitting his 37th home run on the season and putting Balboni's name one row down in the record books from now on.

Also, only four players aged 40 or over have ever hit 28 or more home runs — Ted Williams, Darrell Evans, Barry Bonds, and Raul Ibanez — with Evans» 34 being the high mark.

More memorable was his performance last Friday, when he hit two home runs against the Mets.

They've instituted home run limits, and in some leagues - shudder the thought - a ball hit over the fence becomes an out; it also leads to more attempts at line drives, which puts everyone in danger.

By Baseball Prospectus TREVOR HOFFMAN is on the verge of breaking Lee Smith's saves record the sameway Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record: with extreme consistency.Aaron never hit more than 47 home runs in a season, but he hit at least 30 on15 occasions.

Wood was one of the more surprising pitchers this season and had 5.2 innings of no - hit ball before giving up a home run to George Springer.

It wasn't set off until the fourth home game, when Omar Infante hit the first Marlins homer in the history of the park, but more home runs followed, regular home runs, breathtaking home runs, walk - off home runs.

In Ruth's best five consecutive seasons, from 1926 to 1930, he hit 256 home runs, an average of 4.4 home runs per year more than Kiner's production from»47 to» 51.

However, a back injury forced Kiner to retire at 32, while Ruth and Aaron both hit more than 350 home runs from that age on.

In only two seasons did Aaron hit more than 44 home runs.