Sentences with phrase «inning leadoff»

The 27 - year - old Jones hasn't matched that goal — he had reached base 38 times in 111 first - inning leadoff plate appearances (34.2 %) through Sunday — but he has certainly energized Minnesota's offense.

(Brady Anderson holds the record for single - season first - inning leadoff homers, with 12 in 1996.)

Not exact matches

Tanaka recovers from the leadoff walk, getting Correa to ground out to short, and that's the end of the Astros» first - inning scoring streak.

WELP, Greg Bird just took Andrew Miller deep to leadoff the bottom of the seventh inning, and the Yankees have a 1 - 0 lead.

Tanaka is actually ahead of Carrasco's pace, as the first out of the fourth inning was the game's leadoff hitter, Lindor.

Jason Kipnis juuuuust missed making a wonderful basket catch, but instead, Brett Gardner has a double to leadoff the inning for the Yanks.

He went 23 — 4 with a 2.07 ERA, won the pitching triple crown (wins, ERA and strikeouts), set a major league record with 13.2 strikeouts per nine innings, did not allow a home run in any of the 293 at bats against him with a runner on, permitted only three leadoff walks to score (he walked the first batter only six times in 213 1/3 innings) and struck out 37 % of all batters he faced.

Everybody at the top of the White Sox lineup has contributed: At week's end leadoff man Tim Raines had a first - inning batting average of.389, Joey Cora had scored 21 runs, Frank Thomas had hit 10 homers (no other player had more than seven) and driven in 25 runs, and sometimes cleanup hitter Robin Ventura was batting a major league - high.511 (23 for 45) with 22 RBIs.

Jose Altuve finally woke up, and he hit a leadoff homer in the 10th inning off of Fields.

McCullers kicks off the eighth inning with a leadoff, four - pitch walk to Todd Frazier, and now Headley is up.

Morton gives up a hard - hit liner to right, and that's a leadoff double for Greg Bird to kick off the fifth inning.

That pitch was thrown, following about 150 others, to the White Sox leadoff hitter in the ninth inning, proof, as beleaguered major league hitters had long suspected, that the Ryan Express runs faster the later it gets.

Last year, the Sox were outscored 97 - 80 in the first inning, largely because their leadoff hitters had a low combined on - base average -LRB-.306).