Sentences with phrase «in centerfield»

Devon White is a problem in centerfield.

Matt den Dekker is quickly becoming a household name in centerfield because of his speediness...

Maddon didnot go onto the field on Aug. 15 in Texas, but he did take an extraordinarystep, removing B.J. Upton from his position in centerfield because he was angrythat Upton had not run out a grounder in the top half of the inning.

No ball is safe in centerfield when Tapia is on the hunt.

When Bonds finally unloosed his swing, there was a flash of his bat, and the baseball was gone, 16 rows up in the centerfield bleachers, 438 feet away.

With A.J. Pollack back in centerfield, the Diamondbacks just may post the biggest improvement on the run prevention side.

Starting in centerfield and batting third, he's at the heart of L.A.'s upgraded offense, which is averaging 4.6 runs, up from a major - league - worst 3.5 last season.

On a baseball diamond so scraggly that an impoverished goat would find it unappetizing, a schoolboy and the master cross paths while running sprints in centerfield.

The Diamondbacks» acquisition board is still blank in centerfield.

In centerfield, just above the concourse, you can catch a glimpse of Jenny and the pre / post game telecast crew.

(A fire earlier in the year had caused $ 250,000 in damage to the bleachers in centerfield.)

Lawton is a shrewd pickup because he gets on base -LRB-.366 on - base percentage) and allows manager Joe Torre to put Bernie Williams at designated hitter, Hideki Matsui in centerfield and Tony Womack on the bench.

That's why he wears a helmeteven in centerfield.

Not exact matches

If I should tell you that Gene Neely made the all - American team in football, played a crack centerfield in baseball, that he could handle a golf course in the eighties, and was a master at tennis, you would say, would you not, that he must have had a magnificent physique.

The ball landed in the blackened area behind centerfield, just below the sign with the Marlboro man on it.

A fistful of confetti tossed from the second deck in right centerfield drifted down in the shape of an imperfect V, landing just beyond the spot where the ball disappeared into the stands.

He could play centerfield, in the box safety or straight up man to man if need be.

The brothers compliment each other well with Eric being an enforcer in the box and Justin manning centerfield.

Also, not to minimize how good Sherman is, but he had the best centerfield safety in the league in Earl Thomas; when you have a fast safety who can cover sideline to sideline like Earl can, Sherman's lack of speed becomes less of a concern.

The last man in the line toward centerfield was lefthander Tommy House, one of the Brave staff's short relievers, called Puma by his teammates for the way he bounces around during the pepper games and thumps down catlike on the ball.

The ball rose off Aaron's bat in the normal trajectory of his long hits — the arc of a four - iron shot in golf — ripping out over the infield, the shortstop instinctively bending his knees as if he could leap for it, and it headed for deep left centerfield...

And thus it was delivered to Aaron, the ball that tied Ruth's record, shielded as if contaminated from the view of the huge Opening Day crowd as the attendant, flanked by two guards, hurried in from centerfield.

And this year he has pulled a low - and - inside Phil Niekro knuckleball for a homer; hit a high - and - tight fastball past Steve Carlton into centerfield to knock in a run in a 6 - 0, four - hit shutout of the Phillies; and, in another complete - game win, a five - hit shutout of the Mets, he got an RBI on a groundout after New York Pitcher Charlie Puleo had walked the Padres» No. 8 hitter intentionally.

STATISTICS CAN LIE Toronto first baseman Fred McGriff hit a homer in the SkyDome last week that bounced off the windows of the restaurant overlooking centerfield.

It was in another series against Cincinnati that summer that Ashburn pursued a fly ball to shallow left centerfield.

In their stead the Indians have seen outfielder Michael Brantley blossom: The 24 - year - old had a.372 OBP and has held down the leadoff and centerfield jobs when Grady Sizemore has been injured.

Acquired forthe second time by the Oakland A's, on May 3, Cust appeared in his first majorleague game in two years on May 6 — and in his fourth plate appearance launcheda pitch over left centerfield at Tampa's Tropicana Field.

Bo has beaten out routine ground balls to shortstop, hit a broken - bat grand slam homer over the centerfield fence in Royals Stadium and run down a fly ball in Yankee Stadium that Gardner insists no other leftfielder he has ever seen could have reached.

Trammell, who in 15 major league seasons never played a defensive position other than shortstop, will work at third base, first base, leftfield and centerfield because his successor at short, Travis Fryman, took over when Trammell was injured last season — and Fryman is there to stay.

Then, in his first at bat against the Boston Red Sox, his principal antagonists, he whistled a vicious 408 - foot line drive off the centerfield wall with a swing he estimates required «50 - to 60 - percent» effort.

To stay in the playoff race the Reds need a front - of - the - line starter, another reliable righthander in the bullpen and maybe help at shortstop and centerfield.

He didn't grow up in Queens, but he spent every Sunday here with his grandparents and his dad in the shadow of Shea Stadium, dreaming of someday playing centerfield for the New York Mets.