Sentences with phrase «hitters made»

Five players came up to the plate in that inning, and the worst of those hitters made the final out.

Moreover, when hitters made contact with it, they made Pivetta pay, going 20 - for - 56 with two homers and two doubles.

Rosamond Isenberg, who gave $ 5,000, was among the heavy hitters making donations.

Batman is more of a Gadget fighter using things like his batarang and grappling hook along with his speed while Solomon Grundy is more of a heavy hitter making him a slower choice but still able to use his strength to his advantage by slamming you all over the level.

Not exact matches

In fact, after talks with scores of recruiters, company owners, HR directors, and the recruits themselves, one thing has become clear: for the right opportunity, a lot of heavy hitters are willing to make considerable trade - offs — beginning with the most traditional component of a compensation package: salary.

Scherzer has the ability to make the best hitters in baseball look absolutely foolish.

It's true that the activist investors on the Exxon vote likely include heavy hitters like financial firms BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street (though the specific votes are not made public), which are the company's biggest shareholders, owning more than 18 percent of the stock.

Eric Pineault is the designated hitter on the topic of financialization but I thought I might make a small contribution to get the discussion rolling.

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.

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.

DANNY ESPINOSA is like Jimmy Rollins: He has enough power to make himself a bad hitter.

The cozy hitters» park — alongwith the heat and humidity of Texas summer nights — has helped make the Rangersone of the best hitting clubs in baseball year after year.

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.

Only five pitchers have thrown more than two no - hitters, so with Verlander only being 28 years old, every start he makes from now on will have an added measure of interest.

There's this weird myth that's survived about Greg Maddux being a master of control who thrived because hitters couldn't make solid contact against him.

Tanaka was absolutely painting the outside edge to left - handers in Game 5, and he was making hitters flail with his splitter, which isn't a pitch that hitters are used to.

And he can make dangerous hitters look uncommonly foolish.

Balance is the key for the Cougars, and if they are going to make a deep postseason run, sophomore middle Carley Ward, outside hitters Ni'Yesha Brown and Bailey Gamez along with setter Brooke Hadfield and libero Marissa Angeja will be leading the way.

Simmons was only a little better than a league - average hitter but managed that at shortstop, where that kind of performance makes you a serious contributor.

So, a combination of right field and designated hitter seems to make the most sense.

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.

One of these years, a Rockies hitter will hit enough to make people ignore the park adjustments, like Larry Walker in 1997.

Definitely a play making home run hitter.

It is, of course, silly to make Martin the leadoff hitter for the reasons you point out.

I think a «put away pitch» only carries weight if the hitter doubts his ability to make contact or if the pitchers doubts his ability make him miss.

I'm not sure whether it was the painting or the food that made me pitch that two - hitter, but since then I always eat spaghetti and try to work around the house on days I pitch.»

The easing of these rules might not have a major effect on the Gunners and our chances of winning the Premier League title this time, although it could make life harder for the boss in his transfer dealings, but in the long term it is likely to mean that Arsenal are once again unable to compete with the real big hitters.

Before his career imploded 20 years ago in a cloud of cocaine and alcohol, the tall, slim righthander won 67 games, threw a five - inning no - hitter, appeared in the 1983 NL All - Star Game and made a name for himself — Perimeter Perez — by missing a start after getting lost driving to his home ballpark.

«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.

Without a home run hitter worthy of the name, the White Sox are all set to make their annual run at the Yankees — and the elusive pennant.

What makes Brown deceptive is that he throws his pitches anywhere from sidearm to overhand, which prevents hitters from quickly recognizing what's coming.

Sutcliffe has plunked six hitters so far this season and made dozens more hop and reel out of the box.

He looks like a superstar hitter in the making.

But it's clear the people running the team, who are making the decisions like, «No, Eovaldi should be all we need,» or, «Look these hitters all still have another year or two in them, they'll be fine» have information that I don't.

Runner - up: Billy Hamilton looking like a viable major league hitter, which in turn makes him look like a budding superstar.

While he wouldn't go into what makes Houston so far ahead of hitters, he mentioned studying weaknesses.

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

Murphy is a fine complementary player, but he makes you wince as a # 5 hitter.

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.

In the past two years Martinez has also learned how to cut his fastball, making it bore in on the hands of lefthanded hitters.

The best Mets» and Royals» hitters get on base and work the count, but they're not exactly the types of hitters that make anyone put off a trip to the restroom.

Making it to 250 is impressive enough: Just 227 of over 10,000 hitters in history have accomplished even that in their careers.

His unique approach at the plate makes him a better hitter with runners on -LRB-.336), and especially in scoring position -LRB-.340), than with the bases empty -LRB-.331).

That competitive fire made young Mazzone exactly the kind of pitcher who would drive Mazzone the pitching coach off his rocker — not changing speeds enough, relying on velocity, maxing out, and trying to overpower hitters.

Lastly, we have a goal shortage, and good as a few signings have been, we needed at least 2 more heavy hitters to make us better, but the tight fisted one bought a backup midfielder (admittedly a decent one) but no proven goalscorer.

They are just 64 - 62, barely hanging on to.500, but with Span such a good hitter these past two seasons and a positive defensive presence for Washington, a healthy return would have at least made a late - season run plausible.

That combination has helped to make her one of the top high school outside hitters in the class of 2020.

Well, it seems that Ohtani, who has made quite a splash in his first couple weeks as an Angels» pitcher and designated hitter, has taken a page from the golf superstars» playbook, or at least some associated with the MLB rookie have.

anything but a win will make 4th place an increasingly distant goal... to be honest we should be able to beat this lot woy has tightened them up but hardly turned them in to big hitters but i do nt think wenger can motivate the team anymore so its all about whether players show up on the night... wilshere needs to get on the ball more partnered with elneny who is probably the most reliable of a hapless riumvirate, kosalinac and debuchy given roles in a back 4... if sanchez wants to showcase his skills i can see a 2 1 victory... otherwise could be looking at another embarassing loss... pathetic that we have fallen to this level of speculation