Sentences with phrase «hitter does»

You can also provide a server for the ribs so the big hitters don't load up on them.

A happy Swede predicted: «I'm gonna beat those guys tomorrow, and I'm just liable to pitch a no - hitter doing so.»

Umpires and hitters don't want the grief involved in retraining their judgment of what is a ball and a strike.

It's so tough to read, hitters don't know what it is.»

Most players who become switch - hitters do so to avoid difficult lefty - lefty or righty - righty matchups with pitchers.

The.413 hitter didn't post a single hit in the Tigers» opening night slugfest with Florida State, and even his mom was in attendance to cheer him on.

No - hitters don't have to mean anything, but you don't have to squint if you want to peel back some layers on this one.

Except the Red Sox have a lineup this year that's different from what they tried last year in one key way: They can be excellent even if the young hitters don't develop right away or break out.

There's a chance, a real chance, that they might have sub -.300 OBPs from the No. 5 spot in the lineup through the No. 9 spot — four of the five hitters did it last year — at which point the lineup would turn over with a player who also has a chance to make a lot of outs.

Real heavy hitters don't need risk control.

The big hitters didn't make a show of it like they did last year.

Pinch hitters don't come cheap

You also need to know how the heavy hitters do it: the secrets and strategies that enable them to perform, produce, and stay on top in any economy.

Not exact matches

At times, he'll keep a slumping hitter in the lineup far too long, as he did with Adam Dunn in 2011.

Bottom line: every one of the ten outperformed the index over the five year period, and as a group they did so by an average of 11 % per year, the financial equivalent of back - to - back no - hitters.

Does the hitter cross himself and point to the sky after he strikes out?

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.

But it's even more entertaining to watch the hitters panic, knowing that the baseball can dart a foot away from the plate if it doesn't bore right in on their damned thumbs.

He showed up, threw more than 200 innings, didn't walk anyone, kept the ball in the park and kept hitters supremely and eternally uncomfortable.

Because he does not hit the ball as far as the likes of Palmer and Nicklaus, Marr must play his approaches and putts with infinite finesse to keep abreast of the big hitters.

Remember, Gattis doesn't have significant platoon splits, but it's also not going to matter here, as he gets intentionally walked to bring up another pinch - hitter, Cameron Maybin — it gets Kershaw a different matchup, and also, maybe more importantly, forces AJ Hinch to take Chris Devenski out of the game now and go to another pitcher in the bottom of the frame.

But most teams do stuff their best hitters from Nos. 3 - 5.

Hitters go 0 - for - 4, and they do it often, even if it looks like a mismatch on paper.

Did you watch Mike Piazza's flat, violent swing on a ball right down the middle, jabbing it 430 feet to right - center where another power hitter would have been lucky to pull it 400 feet?

He might end up being the same kind of difference maker Correa was, but don't take that to mean he's going to be a fantastic hitter out of the gate.

Even though it doesn't seem like he'll ever be a.300 hitter or big OBP guy, he's still just 25 and inexpensive.

Mikolas has looked terrible so far, not because he can't get his pitches to work (well, partially), but because the pitches that worked in Japan, a largely contact league, don't work against patient MLB hitters that aren't looking to foul the ball away like they do in Japan.

I too have always thought of Great American as a bandbox, and it does allow a lot of home runs, but it disfavors hitters in other ways (e.g., left - handed hitters hit fewer triples and doubles than league average).

# 39 Jan Dukes CHEYENNE All - America at Santa Clara threw no - hitter in final collegiate start, in 1967; no wins, but did have 2.70 ERA in three seasons in majors.

I don't try to remember every hitter as such, but what happens is, when you look at a hitter you almost automatically remember the times he's hurt you.

Cabrera has been the best hitter in baseball this season, and he may well do something a rare few have done.

No - hitters have always been a metaphor for every championship season in baseball history — took some skill, took some luck, was sure a lot of fun, wheeeeeeee, let's do it again!

It's the title game, two outs in the last inning andthe tying run on third: Do you pitch to the star hitter or lay it all on thekid who's been through hell already?

Another part of that has to do with 23 different hitters not being ready for a specific pitch at a specific time.

But it's also a catch - all phrase for a hitter that does everything well without blowing away the league in a single category.

So, you're thecoach: Do you intentionally walk the star hitter so you can face the kid whocan barely swing?

They might have to face life without their team leader, without chunks of their rotation, without their No. 3 hitter and they'll have to do it in a young, talented, messy NL Central.

The Cardinals don't have secret powers that would have prevented Pujols» foot from breaking down, but they do have Stan Musial's endocrine glands pickled in different jars, and they let certain hitters chew on them from time to time.

It is the draw you want; you either want someone who you can go out and beat or you draw one of the big hitters and they don't come much bigger than Arsenal.

If they come out the other side with still - abysmal starting pitching, just $ 200 million poorer and unable to do anything about it for the next few offseasons, they'll have wasted the golden opportunity their young hitters have given them.

I do think that our new defensive solidity is a step in the right direction though and the confidence of winning the BPL again, combined with the spending power that the new TV rights deal gives us, should help Wenger to close the gap on the current European big hitters.

If you didn't like Sandoval's chances to succeed, you would have to offer up reasons other than «not muscly,» because hitters need to have muscles until they don't.

True, but as I've explained elsewhere, a bunt there by Charlie doesn't only move the winning run to 3rd, it also eliminates the double play possibility for the next hitter.

Some hitters say to me, «Don't talk to the pitchers too much,»cause if they're traded they'll know how to pitch to you.»

«West also said: «The pitch prior to the strikeout, [Rendon] walked completely out of the hitter's circle, which the hitters aren't allowed to do.

And find all kind of power hitters talking about why they don't do it, and a lot of it is «Bunting is actually hard.

He will be a hitter for three or four games every week, he will be a pitcher for one game every week, and he probably won't do both on the same day.

I don't want to become known as a 24 - year - old pinch hitter.»

They did, though, and they brought all of their hitters along.

Why, in all the kingdoms of those that are baseball does Ned Yost, or as my phone calls him, Bed Post, think that Cheslor «You Only Exist to Me Because We Signed Moose» Cuthbert is a clean up hitter??? Why, Gawd, Why, did this man fall out of a tree and hit his head or something?