Sentences with phrase «hitter last»

Harvey Kuenn -LRB-.290), who needs 88 hits to reach the 2,000 mark, was a dangerous hitter last year.

Myers was an above - average hitter last year, so keep the faith.

Here are the wRC + for all the Giants hitters last season:

DiSanto and Grover were two of the team's top three hitters last year and will have to make up for the loss of second - leading hitter Leanna Collins, who graduated after last season.

There's also many Nintendo games in the Top 20, which will come to no surprise: Nintendo did have some heavy - hitters last year!

Boseman and company were also one of the studio's heavy hitters last month during Comic - Con International in San Diego, where a new trailer was debuted during the Hall H presentation, earning a standing ovation.

Nintendo has been heavy hitters the last two years with their classic lineup of consoles and games.

Not exact matches

Last weekend's Hyperloop pod design contest attracted heavy hitters to what amounted to a coming - out party for the technology.

Twenty - one heavy - hitters from Bordeaux, Australia, California, Italy and China (the Ao Yun, profiled on this page last year) from the 2014 vintage — a particularly great year for Margaret River cabernet — were all tasted blind.

There was a distinct lack of talent 2015 - 2017 that can explain those years away, and this season is veeeeery young still, but we're already getting some of the same flashes of the last few years even though we now have talented hitters.

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?

Last season he had personal major league lows in home runs and RBIs, and at one point in September he got so fed up that he refused to enter a game as a pinch hitter.

Leadoff hitter and second baseman Ray Durham, 28, is that rare player who can run (34 stolen bases last year) and drive in runs (60 RBIs).

A graceful fielder and a stylish lefthanded hitter, Terry was the last National Leaguer to hit.400 in a season -LRB-.401 in 1930).

Cross told Sky Sports that he feels Wenger has made a number of big mistakes since the end of last summer and it seems that his frustration is all the more because it seemed as though we would finally see the Gunners step up and challenge the big hitters like Man City, Chelsea and Man United.

Alderson, meanwhile, traded two minor leaguers — players to be named later — to the Texas Rangers for designated hitter Baines, an All - Star in four of his last six seasons.

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).

If Gausman and Bundy can be reliable pitchers, if Cashner doesn't regress, if Cobb can pitch a sub - 4.00 ERA with half his games in hitter - friendly Camden Yards, if Tillman can have a huge comeback year, if the bullpen continues to be strong, if Brach can be a solid closer until Britton's return, if Davis and Trumbo can find their batting stroke again, if Mancini and Schoop replicate last season, if Manny continues to be Manny at short and with his improved swing, if Adam is still Adam, if Beckham can learn to play defense at 3rd and be August - Beckham instead of September - Beckham at the plate, if the catchers can somehow do their part, and if the O's figure out their right field situation (and all of that put together is one big IF).....

This looks familiar: Last year, Rockies hitters combined for 16.0 bWAR, Arenado / Blackmon / LeMahieu combining for 16.1 bWAR.

«It's definitely made me stronger,» says designated hitter John Roskos, whose 23 dingers through Sunday are more than twice his total for all last season with Portland.

Here is a ball club with leadership and spirit, a great hitter, a tight infield, good run production — and the memory of how tough they made it on the Braves last year.

He sure looks like a different hitter over the last month, a more comfortable player with a slightly different approach.

He is a first baseman and designated hitter, though, so the 103 OPS + he's put up over the last four seasons really isn't cutting it, especially not at an average of $ 23 million per year.

«I've taken a lot of heat the last few years, but I know I'm not a.220 hitter,» DeShields says.

Last off - season seven hitters changed teams as free agents with contracts that paid them at least $ 8 million in 2016.

Leiter, also a lefthander, held righthanded hitters to a major - league - low.194 average last year employing his cutter.

But Homer threw baseball's last no - hitter in 2012 and then threw one in 2013, so it can't be too tough for him.

Last year hitters had a smaller chance of reaching base against Smoltz (26 %) than against any other pitcher in the big leagues.

Reds Reliever Clay Carroll says, «Last year he knew all the hitters already.

George Culver, who threw well enough for the Reds himself last year to win 11 games, one a no - hitter, says, «I wish I had his arm.»

Especially his last start... he was placing his splitter preciselt where he wanted it, and hitters couldn't do a think.

It's an amazing hole that gets overshadowed by the last two, with a tree hanging out over the fairway for a menacing obstruction on what's a gettable two - shot par - 5 for both long and short hitters.

In the last five years, Desmond is a.269 /.321 /.443 hitter, a 105 OPS +, averaging 31 doubles, 22 home runs, and 20 steals.

Yes, standing in the wake of his fire, you understand perfectly that this is a man who can use a baseball to snip the button from a hitter's shirt, who is the last great hope of geriatric New Englanders and who sent the Cleveland Indians home for the winter, despite an injured arm he could barely lift above his head and with little more of his usual weaponry than the look of a lion tamer in his eyes.

In his last 15 games Oliver has smacked nine doubles and vaulted ahead of Catcher Jim Sundberg as the Rangers» leading hitter,.312 to.305 Oliver twice had four - hit nights during his hot spell, most recently last Friday in Chicago as Texas defeated the White Sox 9 - 5.

And we're arguably doing this without one of our best hitters, our second best SP from last year, and Dustin Pedroia, who while in decline, may still be a boost to the offense as he is.

What happens to him if he hits into some poor luck, or if he's more like the career.256 hitter that he was before last season?

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.

Last season Nelson Cruz led the American League in home runs with 40 while Giancarlo Stanton led all National League hitters with 37.

Overall, things went very well for Martinez at the plate last year, his first as Seattle's full - time designated hitter.

When Tucker joined Atlanta last season, he was the perfect spray hitter to bat behind the explosive and jet - propelled Kenny Lofton.

Last Friday, Black had gathered his pitchers around a conference table adjacent to the clubhouse to review the San Francisco hitters.

Much love to Jarlin Garcia, who has allowed just one hit over his last 11 innings despite walking seven hitters and striking out only five.

«With all of my accomplishments as a hitter [he went hitless in his first 57 major league at bats before smashing a double last season], I've done things that no one has done in a while.»

The teenage midfielder has impressed during his time with the Portuguese big hitters, and further enhanced his reputation last month by bagging an assist during the Champions League clash against Chelsea last month (via Metro) and a report on talkSPORT is now claiming that the Gunners have been having him scouted in recent weeks.

His raw stuff is good enough to get major league hitters out, and fielding - independent numbers suggest he was a lot better than last year's 5.31 ERA.

He's become an okay hitter away from Coors the last two years.

The last Giants pitcher to throw a no - hitter against the Dodgers was Rube Marquard of the New York Giants no - hit the Brooklyn Dodgers at the Polo Grounds on April 15, 1915.

Here, then, are two pitchers who were excellent year after year, who were recognized as such, who pitched better and lasted longer than almost all of their peers, and who did it all when ballparks were lively and hitters were unfathomably large.

Unfortunately, Koepka's win and 379 - yard 3 - wood on the last hole may be reduced to «big hitter wins on longest U.S. Open course ever.»