Sentences with phrase «innings in a baseball game»

Not exact matches

In the true nine - inning spirit of the game, here are the nine most important sales lessons I learned from baseball:

The main message for investors who are just now being approached is the following: it's not the second inning or even the sixth, it's the fourteenth inning in a five - hour baseball game.

In fact, I would say that if the adoption curve of online retail were a baseball game, we might be mid-way through the second inning with almost the whole game ahead of us.

Los Angeles Dodgers» Austin Barnes (15) celebrates with Alex Verdugo in the second inning after hitting a solo home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks during a baseball game, Thursday, May 3, 2018, in Phoenix.

If baseball puts in a pitch clock, raises the strike zone, eliminates extensive mound visits, limits pitching changes, institutes a mercy rule, starts extra innings with a runner on second base, limits the number of pickoff throws, requires pitchers to face a minimum number of batters, limits defensive shifts, and institutes all sorts of other changes to speed the game up and improve quality of play, there might be improvements.

It would be helpful if you would stop using hyperbole when you write up articles on our baseball games, such as or «FSU Baseball plummets in the polls...» (after dropping from 6th to 12th); or describing our 11th inning game against Duke as a «largely unwatchable gamebaseball games, such as or «FSU Baseball plummets in the polls...» (after dropping from 6th to 12th); or describing our 11th inning game against Duke as a «largely unwatchable gameBaseball plummets in the polls...» (after dropping from 6th to 12th); or describing our 11th inning game against Duke as a «largely unwatchable game.»

In the seventh inning, Aaron Judge destroyed a baseball to make it a 4 - 1 game, which was still fine for the Astros.

Harvey's Legacy Harvey Haddix, who died of emphysema last week at age 68, will forever be remembered for the 12 innings of perfect baseball he threw for the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 26, 1959, arguably the best - pitched game in history.

Doc Medich, the Milwaukee pitcher, had walked Rickey Henderson on four straight balls in the third inning of the Brewers» game with the Oakland A's last Friday night in County Stadium, and now, reluctantly, he stood to become a part of baseball history.

He was a relief pitcher of distinctive rhythms: deep, snoring naps in the bullpen that stretched through a game's first five innings; languid ninth - inning strolls to the mound that tested the patience of even the most unalloyed baseball purists; an endless, silky windup that uncoiled fastballs that until recent years hit 100 mph.

According to a 1979 study of 39 professional baseball games, 77 % of the fights in the stands occurred in the least expensive seats; 69 % happened at night; and 70 % in the last four innings, when alcohol had taken hold.

In the manner of the NHL and the NBA, baseball has decided to let no game go unmediated; no inning, no at bat, no single moment is allowed to pass without a deafening infusion of prerecorded enthusiasm.

He entered Game 7 in the sixth inning and shut down one of the best lineups baseball has seen in years.

Anything can happen in one baseball game — anyone can be the hero, the goat, or maybe both a few innings apart.

The pitching got better after the Boston Braves and Brooklyn Robins passed the tough 17th inning of the longest game in all baseball history

It was just the fifth time in baseball history that a pitcher struck out 20 in a nine - inning game.

It's one of the scariest scenes in baseball, Blue Jays starter J.A. Happ was hit squarely in the head by a line drive off the bat of Tampa Bay Rays» Desmond Jennings in the second inning of Tuesday's game a Tropicana Field.

We're not saying extra innings shouldn't exist — exhibition or no, it's still baseball — but the Midsummer Classic could use some tweaks to make sure we're never again in a situation where Robinson Cano has to save the audience and the game's managers from running out of players in extras.

To go back to that Koskie tweet from the eighth inning for a moment, let's just point out how hilarious it would be if MLB went back to the pre-World Series baseballs for a night just to get people to stop talking about how slick the balls are in the World Series, and the result is a 3 - 1 game where suddenly all of the awful pitchers can go back to being good enough.

In 2007 Little League Baseball dropped its decades - old pitching rules - which limited pitchers age 12 and under to six innings per week and six innings per game, with the number of innings increasing for older age groups - in favor of rules based on pitch counIn 2007 Little League Baseball dropped its decades - old pitching rules - which limited pitchers age 12 and under to six innings per week and six innings per game, with the number of innings increasing for older age groups - in favor of rules based on pitch counin favor of rules based on pitch count.

Bernstein drew a mental picture of baseball games he's attended, «in which you see lightning in the background, and the attitude was, «let's finish the inning.»

And in full disclosure this Mets fan didn't exactly sit and watch (9 innings X 162 games =) 1,458 innings of baseball during those losing seasons when the Mets were mathematically eliminated by June 3rd.

This fourth edition of the fast - paced baseball franchise harkens back to the series pick - up - and - play roots, featuring full nine - inning games that can be played in just under 20 minutes.

Another more common metaphor would be «What inning of the baseball game are we in?»

It is like a baseball game that inning after inning there are no home runs or in a football game no score.

Baseball fans rejoice at Petco Park, where you can enjoy the game in sophisticated style in the Western Metal Building lounges, or take in the innings from the Park ball field with your kids.

R.B.I. Baseball, which has long featured fast paced and fun gameplay, is a full nine - inning game in less than 20 minutes with easy - to - use controls.

Rest assured, though, all nine innings made it into Great Baseball, which makes the game the most fully formed of the more recent titles in the «Great» series.

Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings also launches on Shield Android TV with support for local multiplayer, so if you're planning to get the game and play with friends you might want to invest in an extra Shield controller if you don't have one already.

The same is true of most left - handed relief pitchers in baseball, whose job descriptions are typically limited to disposing of left - handed hitters in the middle and late innings of games.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told me in an interview last year that artificial intelligence was not just in the first inning of a long baseball game, but at the stage where the very first batter comes up.

Meaning you can burn through a three - game series in less time than it'd take to play nine innings in a different baseball game.

After all, even if you believe, as he does, that the cryptocurrencies have much further to run — he compares the current phase of the industry to the third inning of a baseball game — investors who bought in amid crescendoing hype have still gotten burned in the meantime.

As I walked in a few innings into the baseball game, it told me the score whenever I asked «OK Google, what's the score of the cubs game?»

© Chris Szagola Fox Sports reporter Kelsey Wingert in action during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016, in Philadelphia.

«You wouldn't want to start a baseball game in the 5th inning — we're starting to prioritize early child education,» continued Bryant.