Sentences with phrase «hitting catcher»

The film also focuses on flamboyant pitcher Satchel Paige (Delroy Lindo) and power - hitting catcher Josh Gibson (Mykelti Williamson).

Hepplewhites and Homers are both highly valued by Ted Simmons, antique collector, art museum trustee,.300 - hitting catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and foe of the shoddy in sport.

Jan 04,2016... MIKE PIAZZA, the best hitting catcher of all time, left professional baseball the way he came in, wi...

But for this team I have a powerful switch - hitting catcher.

With two outs, left - handed - hitting Catcher Bill Chandler sent a sharp ground ball between first and second which Texas» First Baseman John Langerhans fielded nicely but threw low and wide toward Pitcher Hooton, who was covering first base.

He just needs to dig his way out of the Jon Lester zone and become a typically weak - hitting catcher again.

He's been nice and steady, and while his OPS + (99) is well off his career average (113), he's still a young, switch - hitting catcher with superior defense.

It hits the catcher's mitt.

Not exact matches

A New Jersey woman is suing a 12 - year - old Little League catcher whose baseball accidentally hit her while she was eating a picnic five feet from the bullpen, breaking her orbital...

Grandal hasn't been hitting, but it's not like he's been a dominant offensive catcher all season.

I mean, I know that I'd run any team I touched straight into the ground, but did you realize that Mariners catchers hit.159 /.205 /.259 as a group last year?

For instance, Opening Day catcher RodBarajas is merely a placeholder for hard - hitting prospect J.P. Arencibia, afirst - round pick in 2007.

Of the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he could.

He was the best catcher to hit baseballs.

Welington Castillo — a catcher recently thought of so highly that the Mariners let him slip away — might hit in the middle of the order, unless that's Jake Lamb's job.

Phillies catchers are hitting a combined.200 (14 for 70) with just one extra-base hit, and still the great concern is on the defensive side.

Leadoff man Michael «backups each play at 1st base from Catcher» Goldstein had 4 hits and a few RBI of his own..

Now that Molina isn't cranking 20 homers and hitting.320 anymore, he's just another catcher.

Is that the catcher equivalent of a Call of Duty player repeatedly hitting the crouch button while standing over a fallen opponent?

I think Knapp can hit well enough to be a major league catcher, the problem is his defense is rough and doesn't seem likely to get much better.

Aroldis Chapman was hit in the face with a comeback line drive courtesy of Kansas City catcher Salvador Perez on Wednesday night, immediately leaving the game on a stretcher and going to the hospital.

Since Sept. 4 the Texas catcher is hitting.526 (20 for 38), slugging.974 with an OBP of.609 — all league highs.

On a 3 - 1 count, Rodriguez's pitch hit the backstop behind catcher Corky Miller and came back at him nearly hitting him in the head.

Catcher is not too exciting, but Lucroy has come through with some good at bats and important hits and maybe Maxwell will learn to pull the ball run into a few HRs.

There was the shot the burly Braves catcher hit in his major league debut, on April 3, a towering fly off Phillies righthander and two - time Cy Young winner Roy Halladay.

• Detroit's Mickey Tettleton, who became the only catcher besides Roy Campanella to hit 30 home runs in back - to - back seasons.

In the 12th, they told their listeners that Twin Catcher Glenn Borgmann had entered the game hitting.324 and that his average was now.282.

«That's a knee buckler,» says Yankees catcher Joe Girardi, who hit against the Astros righthander in the National League.

A. Nine: hit, walk, error, forceout, fielder's choice (when the man on base is not forced out or not retired), hit by pitched ball, interference by catcher or other member of fielding team, missed third strike, and batted fair ball hitting a runner or umpire before it is touched by a fielder.

In today's expansion - diluted market it is often possible to regard the major league catcher as a sort of convenience, somebody to stop the ball from hitting the umpire when the batter misses it and to get the ball back to the mound.

«That made me so mad that when he came up again at the back end of the game I called Tommy Padden, my catcher, out to the mound, and I said, «Tommy, I don't think the Big Bamboo can hit my fastball.»

David Ross hit his 100th career home run Friday, an obviously special milestone for the Cubs» veteran catcher.

He was proficient with it, sweeping it back and forth over the Braves» bullpen, though the only ball he had come close to catching with his gear had been a batting - practice home run hit into the bullpen enclosure the year before by a catcher named Freddie Velazquez.

Dodgers catcher Chad Kreuter says he will sue Josh Pulliam, the fan who allegedly hit Kreuter and stole his cap, precipitating the May brawl between fans and players in the Wrigley Field stands.

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.

Miami's leadoff hitters other than Gordon this season have done quite well in his absence, hitting.324 /.396 /.420, with time split at the top of the order mostly between outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (31 starts), second baseman Derek Dietrich (22 starts) and catcher J.T. Realmuto (21 starts).

At catcher, Hernandez, who hit just.149 with the Dodgers last year, gets the job by default.

We'll test arm strength, fielding skills, pitching speed and accuracy, catcher pop times, hitting and bunting ability, speed, agility, athleticism and more.

With the tying run on deck, catcher Joe Pignatano strode to the plate and promptly hit a blooper toward rightfield.

Neither catcher Carlos Santana -LRB-.220 /.345 /.382) nor rightfielder Shin - Soo Choo -LRB-.222 /.301 /.354) has hit as expected.

During that span Atlanta launched 45 homers, with the most potent contributions coming from first baseman Andres Galarraga (10 homers), catcher Javier Lopez (eight) and surprising outfielder Michael Tucker (eight), who hit six dingers in one six - game run.

AS FREE AGENTS: Catcher - Infielder DAVE ROBERTS, 29, who hit.238 with the Rangers last season, to a five - year, $ 1.1 million contract with the Astros; Pitcher JOHN D'ACQUISTO, 29, whose 1980 record with the Padres and Expos was 2 - 5, to a four - year deal with the Angels worth $ 1.15 million; and First Baseman LEE MAY, 37, formerly of the Orioles, to a one - year contract with the Royals.

Facing Jeremy Helickson with the bases loaded and no outs, Yankees catcher Russell Martin rolled over a ball hitting it to third baseman Evan Longoria.

The Falcons» senior catcher hit a game - tying two - run homer in the sixth inning, and then followed it up with a game - winning walk - off grand slam in the seventh, as Freedom won a wild North Coast Section Division I quarterfinal 11 - 7 over visiting Alhambra - Martinez.

I don't know if we need a leader, but we need a catcher who can hit.»

«Sure he can,» New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza says of the possibility of Bonds's hitting.400.

Hitting, fielding / baserunning and catcher sessions are offered through grade 12, including special sessions for girls fastpitch softball at some locations.

Wieters committed catcher's interference which gave Tommy La Stella a base, which is when Scherzer hit Jay with a pitch so Heyward came home.

The writers told me that Mike Redmond, our backup catcher, hits Glavine real good, something like.484.

Berra, a superb catcher, batted.285, hit 358 home runs and had 1,430 RBIs in his 19 seasons.