Sentences with phrase «in baseball over»

In all, he has seen more than 210 different teammates, more turnover than any team in baseball over the past decade.

The league not only has some of the oldest schools in the West «'' Bellarmine Prep of San Jose was founded in 1849 and Sacred Heart Cathedral - S.F. was founded in 1852 «'' but in baseball over the last 30 years has featured some of the best coaches the state has ever seen.

According to StatCorner, though, he's been among the worst framers in baseball over the last four seasons.

That's 89 wins per season despite a cumulative 4.47 FIP from their starters, which ranked 28th in baseball over that time.

Pierre elicited that reaction more than anyone in baseball over the last 14 years.

A left - handed reliever with one of the highest strikeout rates in baseball over the last few years, also around for the next three seasons.

Not exact matches

As in the business world, being a manager in baseball is about supervising people, trying to get the most out of a group of individuals over a long season.

Baseball, played without a clock and unfolding over the longest season in sports, requires the same patience and dynamism as running a business.

Take Curt Schilling for example, who made in excess of $ 100 million over his 20 seasons with Major League Baseball.

Their study (also in Southern Economic Journal) looked at how per capita income was affected by work stoppages in the National Football League and Major League Baseball over a nearly three - decade span.

The SkyDome was originally intended to cost $ 225 million but by the time the first baseball was hit, the cost had ballooned to over $ 650 million (almost $ 1 billion in today's money).

His passion for volunteering began as an award - winning coach for his children's sports teams, coaching over 27 teams in sports including hockey, soccer, lacrosse and baseball.

American Heritage has had many talented baseball teams in recent memory, but the issue in getting over the hump was always that the Patriots were in the same district as Archbishop McCarthy in Class 6A.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

Positioned like a power hitter in baseball, He waited for someone to question him so he could smash you over the left - field wall.

We had fights over my inability to catch a baseball; over my desire to learn colors and flowers; over my wanting to play a violin; over my need for stuffed toy animals in my bed with me until 8th grade or so.

The child is disobedient and rebellious, and one day, the father got frustrated that in a moment of anger he hit the child over the head with a baseball bat.

My baseball fever began to rise in 1957, when I was six and the O's managed to play.500 ball over the course of the then - 154 game season.

And for many who were over 30 during the «60s, the radical changes in young people's values and life styles underscored the loss of a taken - for - granted morality that was once as integral to American culture as baseball, popcorn and Chevrolet.

You were a young egg with the world in your hip pocket, alright, but then time took over and everything decayed and oxidized and faded and your stupid baseball team kept breaking your heart, over and over, it never stopped.

With just over a month of baseball to go in the regular season, maybe the Mets can still make it to the postseason, but they were already lagging behind three other teams in the NL Wild Card race, with another just a game back of them.

There will be no bigger (baseball) story in the nation's capital over the next six months, unless the Washington Nationals can bring World Series baseball back to D.C. for the first time since 1933.

In midfarewell with Herb, Reggie, one of the best two - strike hitters baseball ever had, already has his finger poised over the dial.

When I started writing about baseball nationally in 2011, the Orioles, Royals, and Pirates had combined to finish over.500 twice since the millennium started.

And Judge or Trout or Correa might get one or two singles in 15 hours worth of baseball stretched over five nights.

It's not like Jean - Paul World Baseball rolled over in bed one morning and declared there should be a rousing tournament in his honor.

From underneath the rubble, the Milwaukee Brewers are over.500 and just 3 1/2 games behind the Chicago Cubs in the NL Central, which is one of baseball's tightest divisions.

That means a little more than half the teams in baseball have had an average - or - better first baseman over the last two decades, which is roughly what you should expect.

Strong supporting evidence that major league baseball should spread over the country in the 1960s came from Washington, where a Senate subcommittee heard testimony on two bills — S. 616 by Senator Keating and S. 886 by Senator Kefauver — both designed to prevent monopoly and preserve opportunity in professional sport.

In hearings scheduled to begin this week, a congressional committee attempts to discover how far the stain of steroids has spread over baseball

So in reality, 16 games of poor baseball is not even beginning to approach the level of mediocrity we saw for over half of last year.

The over / under was set at 2 minutes, 1 second, following Idina Menzel's 2:01 performance in the Major League Baseball All Star Game this past summer.

Now, granted, Judge hit the roof during an event that is specifically manufactured so that people can hit baseballs long distances over and over again, not in an actual game.

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In the middle of all that, though, there was Game 5, which was a delirious mess that was more like a tanker truck tipping over and spilling a baseball - like substance all over the highway.

These days, after the college season is over, the loveliest ballpark in America becomes home to the Alpine Pony League team, coached by Scotty Lewis, who, like his father before him, went to college on a baseball scholarship paid for by Herbert Kokernot Jr..

Ohtani is both the best prospect in baseball and the best free agent, and he's available for Joe Blanton money over the next six years.

It's easy to see why teams would want Duffy — he has several years under contract, he has blossomed to put up 6 WAR over the last two years, and just seven left - handed starters in baseball have a better strikeout rate over the past two seasons.

Schilling started feuding with Williams, the Phillies» erratic reliever, over Williams's difficulty throwing strikes.Well, Williams was traded to the Houston Astros in the off - season, and Kruk got testicular cancer, and Schilling opened the next season miserably and then had elbow surgery, and Hollins got hurt, and then... and then, as we all know, baseball temporarily ceased to exist.

But it's fair, in a way, because Stanton has been mostly unremarkable in a baseball sense over the last two seasons.

With any luck, this is all over and no one else will get punched in the face or hit by a pitch or slid into hard, but it's baseball, so at least one of these things could happen again.

Reyes then threw a fastball that tailed back over the inside half of the plate, about thigh - high, and McGwire sent it sailing over the white hat of one of Major League Baseball's 40 special agents in the outfield seats, a detective from St. Petersburg, Fla., who resisted the urge to throw a hand up.

If dingers are a rare, desirable commodity in this pitching - friendly era, the Diamondbacks will have an advantage over most of the teams in baseball.

Griffin gave up 28 homers in 119 innings, which is one of the highest rates in baseball history for any pitcher over 100 innings.

Over the years Simont has illustrated a variety of subjects for us, including motor sports (I still happily remember the girl in the towering straw hat in his drawings of Nassau's race week), football, bullfighting, dog racing and golf, but the greatest part of his work for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has been in and around baseball.

This is the book on baseball's best pitcher: If he isn't being rained out or out being arraigned or in some other way prevented from pitching, you can consider the game over before the first out has been made.

This is how more than half of the rebuilds in baseball will go over the next five years.

Over the years, even as black youths turned away from baseball and toward football and basketball, JRW blossomed into one of the most successful and heralded youth baseball leagues in Illinois.

With Xander Bogaerts, David Ortiz, Jackie Bradley Jr. and Dustin Pedroia all hitting over.300 this season, the Red Sox have the best batting average in baseball at.293.

And if he gets the big hit that gives the Cubs their first title in over a century, it will be the biggest anti-curse the baseball gods have ever offered.