Sentences with phrase «hitters as»

Besides Google Maps, Gmail and Google Music you get such heavy hitters as Google +, YouTube, and the new Hangouts IM and video calling app (via an update), among others.

Visitors will get to see iconic works from such heavy hitters as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Donald Judd, Jenny Holzer and many more.

Those blocks are also home to such native heavy - hitters as Susanne Vielmetter, Honor Fraser, Cherry & Martin, and David Kordansky.

Although the company has long reigned supreme over the 10 - inch tablet world, it now finds itself in a highly competitive 7 - inch market, highlighted by such heavy hitters as the Google Nexus 7, Kindle Fire, and Nook, among others.

The eBook pricing war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle over the price of eBooks.

2 min readThe eBook pricing war rages on, with such heavy - hitters as the Department of Justice, Amazon, Apple, and the majority of major publishers continuing to tussle over the price of eBooks.

Bill Pullman, now comfortably back in B - movie territory after his brief flirtation with the big - hitters as the American Pres in «Independence Day», plays some sort of animal warden.

With a cast of unknowns, an obscure second - time director and a story about two high - school kids who befriend a young woman with terminal leukemia, this microbudget indie is about as far from the obvious Oscar heavy - hitters as we can imagine.

Mr Clegg is understood to be particularly keen to see the return of one of his party's few heavy hitters as the Liberal Democrats have been slumping in the polls, falling as low as 10 per cent in one YouGov survey last week.

Ruth, Mays, Harmon Killebrew, Mantle, Aaron — all played on pennant - winners and were supported by such heavy hitters as Lou Gehrig, Willie McCovey, Bob Allison, Roger Maris and Eddie Mathews.

Of the top 30 hitters as measured by OPS, however, 17 were exclusively or predominantly lefthanded.

Together they form as potent a pair of hitters as ever chased a pitcher to an early rinse.

He walks way too many hitters as well.

The end of every year brings cinematic heavy - hitters as studios release their Oscar bids.

The fund, which is targeting $ 100 billion for technology investments, already has attracted investments from such big hitters as Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn and Oracle co-founder and former CEO, Larry Ellison.

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.

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.

Selma, the team's leading hitter as a junior at.443 and with 29 RBI, will play at Cal next fall.

Joe Horlen pitched a four - hitter as the Sox won 4 - 1.

And although he is a good, determined pull hitter who is learning to go to the opposite field as well and baseball men are predicting he will hit 30 home runs a year, he may never be as good a hitter as Dickey or the others at their best.

It was her third no - hitter as a college pitcher.

He may be getting a little older, but he's still as clinical of a hitter as you'll find.

It will be his first start since his no - hitter as Cincinnati looks to nail down home - field advantage.

But there's nothing to assume he's as bad a hitter as last year.

The White Knight Chronicles franchise isn't a heavy hitter as some of Sony's other exclusive franchises but it has sold decently well and gained a solid fan base.

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.

One thing that drew investors to Grey Area was a successful first launch: back in November, when Shadow Cities was released in Finland, it dethroned big - hitter Angry Birds as the top - grossing app in the country.

While there are a few one - off rides tied to the Marvel universe in Orlando, such as the Guardians of the Galaxy roller coaster coming to Epcot, the real heavy hitters of the Marvel universe, including Spider - Man, the Hulk and Iron Man will likely remain MIA for some time.

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.

The company has over 165 partnered programs with 95 different partners, including some big hitters such as Eli Lilly, Bristol - Myers Squibb, Novartis, and Amgen.

I am unpersuaded by the argument that the designated - hitter rule threatens civilization as we have known it.

Solve for us the question of the reasonableness of athiesm, where you get something (big bang) from nothing — there must be a first cause of everything; explain implications of the anthropic principle and the wildly unprobablistic likelihood that our universe could even form in such a fashion as to be capable of sustaining life (which has, interestingly, your athiest heavy hitters (i.e. Dawkins, Schwartz, etc.) necessarily positing multiple universe theories to get around the near probablistic impossibility of all conditions be present at time of big bang for life to be possible without acknowledgement of a divine designing hand guiding the process); explain The probablistic impossibility of non-irreducibly complex basic cells (life) coming together spontaneously (DNA, cell membrane, etc), even the most basic, simple forms of life allowing for reproduction, metabolism, etc...

Discussion of the diverse, unique regionality and superior terroirs found throughout Australia, as well as the skilled and innovative people behind the wine, helps to set Aussie wines apart from those made by other wine - producing hard hitters.

Other chefs participating in the contest included heavy hitters such as Joachim Splichal (Patina), Yuji Wakiya (Wakiya Ichiemicharo), Juilan Serrano (Picasso) and Frank Ostini (Hitching Post).

But I think they'll use Belt as a No. 5, if not a cleanup hitter, to break up the lefties and righties.

If they can get it to the catcher before the hitter touches home (we'll use a force play, here), it counts as a swing.

There's a way to tally up the hitters who have thrived under his tutelage, as well as the ones who have quietly disappeared.

He unbuckles hitters, especially righthanders, with a high - 90s fastball and a circuitous «front - door slider,» as Hickey calls it.

Snider may lookyoung, but he has the bat skills of a mature hitter, drawing comparisons withNationals slugger Adam Dunn — albeit with the ability to hit for average as wellas power.

Hitting techniques are as personal as skating styles, but all great hitters share one attribute.

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.

A smaller player, such as 5» 11» Michael Peca of the Buffalo Sabres, a premier hitter who is listed at 181 pounds but who midway through the playoff grind looks as wispy as Kate Moss, uses his legs to generate force.

Right now the projected lineup over at Roster Resource has Troy Tulowitzki as the leadoff hitter for the Blue Jays.

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.

The Cubs probably wouldn't be as keen as the Red Sox to deal away from their prospect stash for an ace, not when the plan was to develop the hitters and buy the pitchers the whole time.

Whenever a puck carrier has his head down, whenever a forward with more hubris than quickness tries to hurtle down the boards, somebody will nail him with a shot that makes the hitter tingle and the victim feel as though his right shoulder blade is on the left side of his body.

Even Stevens — notwithstanding that solid - gold hit on Kozlov — hasn't been as devastating an open - ice hitter in New Jersey as he was earlier in his career with the Washington Capitals and the Blues.

While he is not quite as prolific as a hitter, 30 HRs is still very good AND he is a major upgrade defensively.

Turns out, he's pretty average as No. 5 hitters go.

The indicator then shows the player's rating as a clutch hitter for that particular trip to the plate.