Sentences with phrase «hitter just»

where our hitters just look totally clueless at the plate.

In the way that the Red Sox and Yankees looked like world - beaters against this soft Rays lineup, is Snell hitting his spots today, or are the White Sox hitters just flailing incompetently?

Buxton probably isn't going to join the 500 - homer club, no, but Jackson was striking out in a third of his plate appearances back when hitters just didn't do that.

We're only three months into 2017, and the heavy - hitters just keep on coming.

Not exact matches

There is a lot of competition with heavy hitters in the equities market and I've seen large institutions drag down a highly liquid stock with just one trade, causing others to dump because of the hit to their portfolios.

While Jesus» miracles and sermons from heavy hitters like T.D. Jakes are enticing, often just talking about your personal relationship with Christ is the best testimony you can provide.

looking forward to Dahl CF — Nazty was Nazty RF — CarGo made a great play and horrible play in RF and still can look horrible hitting LH pitching Bench — Tauchman and McMahon — 0 - 2 2Ks SP — Gray lacked command tonight — just could not put away hitters with 2 strikes.

Update 7/2/2013: Homer Bailey just threw the second no - hitter of his career and joins this prestigious list.

Even if you think Blackmon's 2016 season was a fluke, that would still mean he's roughly the same hitter as Desmond, just a year younger and a lot cheaper.

This type of line up just seems to put hitters in a better place to succeed — that is to me anyway.....

He seems to always get burned on his mistake pitches, and just can not put hitters away with 2 strikes.

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.

Just a terrifying collection of young, imposing hitters who might keep getting better.

Still, Belt just might be one of the better No. 5 hitters in the league, you weirdos.

At any point during the streak, a hitter could have swung at a pitch above his eyes, reached on a dribbler to third, advanced on a fielder's choice, and scored on a broken - bat looper just over the first baseman.

These are the hitters that pitchers see when they close their eyes at night, and some of the groupings are just unfair.

But they never even mention the fact that the hitter is standing there with a bat in his hand, and not just to swing it, either.

You can't have just one pattern on a hitter, because then he'll really know.

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

In an era dominated by hitters, the 27 - year old right hander threw just the 22nd perfect game in league history, complete with 14 strikeouts, in a 10 - 0 victory over the Houston Astros.

If the Royals want to stay on top, they probably still need to add another hitter and absolutely need to add another starter, or else the bullpen is going to be run into the ground before the season is over: Kansas City starters averaged just 5-1/3 innings during these 20 games to go along with that horrid ERA, and that's not going to work all season in what is still a competitive division.

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.

The big hitters have the advantage at just about every tournament and venue these days, but especially at the PGA.

Just that the argument «Hitters need to have abs of steel to hit» is patently false.

At 43, Seattle's Jamie Moyer is still giving hitters fits, but he's just as excited about his charitable giving

On the flip side, playing in Safeco Field means that Seattle needs top - tier hitters, and right now it has just one: second baseman Dustin Ackley.

The Giants had just lost one of their better hitters to a PED suspension, and the Dodgers were willing to pay a $ 150 million finder's fee to get one of the better first baseman in baseball.

His defense was so bad, that Baseball - Reference's WAR ranks his 140 OPS +, 25 - dinger season last year as the ninth-most valuable season of any hitter, just above Miguel Rojas, Darwin Barney, and Zack Greinke (as a hitter).

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.

Also, I would understand if we were talking about Moylan getting shelled by LHB, but I'm not progressive enough to excuse walks just because the hitter was a lefty.

There was a dropped third strike that led to runs (but maybe shouldn't have), catcher's interference, an intentional walk to bad hitters, and an HBP with the bases loaded, and that was just the top of the fifth.

He just has to be a bad hitter instead of an awful hitter.

I'm a curve ball pitcher and I just don't believe there is such a thing as a good curve ball hitter.

If a little kid can do that, just imagine what's going to happen against major league hitters.

Kyle Schwarber, possibly the world's greatest DH - who - isn't - a-DH, is returning to the Cubs just in time for the World Series to be their designated hitter.

Hitters will treat a curve the same way, just so long as they know it is coming.

And those are just the hitters.

His game, however, is typically aggressive — he goes after pins, he pulls driver, and while not the longest hitter in golf, can still boom it at just 5» 9 and 150 pounds.

Because it has become harder to throw the ball past hitters and because mistakes on the inside half of the plate often become home runs, not just singles and doubles, pitchers nibble maddeningly off the lower and outside boundaries of the strike zone.

If they are going to move Stanton down a little to maximize their RBI hitters 1 - 5 who are hot right now, then just flopping Sanchez and Stanton would be the most logical move.

Even Tony Gwynn was a.267 hitter with two strikes, and that's just about the best in baseball history.

... seeing as some folks think he will be MLB's next.400 hitter if we would just find a way to get him in the lineup every day.

Hitting and pitching coaches are important, but seriously, just make your pinch - hitter the manager.

Just taking his strikeout rate at Triple - A and copy / pasting it into the majors would make him one of the greatest strikeout hitters in franchise history, too, so it's not as if it's taken him this long to become a starter because he's been blocked by better players.

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Hawkins maintains that he wasn't thinking about the error or no - hitter, just overthrowing.

If the wind hadn't interfered, it might have been just another no - hitter, a tremendous accomplishment that was remembered only by hardcore fans.

In 2015, though, a lot of hitters have just one speed.

The eight top home run hitters over the past five years — McGwire, Sosa, Albert Belle, Vinny Castilla, Juan Gonzalez, Ken Griffey Jr., Rafael Palmeiro and Mo Vaughn — have a combined career average of.107 against Martinez, with just one home run (by Gonzalez) in 84 times at bat.

There was just no way to prove that he was the best hitter in the postseason, too, not without another chance at this mystical, teeny sample of high - stress, meaningful games.