Sentences with phrase «inside fastballs»
Most impressive part of the at - bat: When the 19 - year - old spit on the second and third pitches he ever saw in the majors, inside fastballs with good location that were designed to punish an overanxious hitter.
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Most pitchers try to jam him with inside fastballs because, like many big men, he has trouble getting around on them.
On a full count pitch, Thames took a inside fastball and fouled it off his mug.
The fourth, an inside fastball, was the call to action.
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McCullers just hit Justin Turner with a pitch again, this time in the back, and the Astros» right - hander can not throw a fastball inside with any kind of command whatsoever.
«That really starts with locating the fastball inside to lefthanded hitters or glove side to righthanded hitters,» Arrieta said when asked about the swings and misses and high strikeout total.
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.
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.
By contrast, should Baltimore and Atlanta stage a been - there, done - that Series in October, Anderson will have firsthand knowledge of how Maddux can start a fastball at a lefthanded hitter's hips and run it back over the inside corner for strike three, as he did in the fourth inning on Friday.
«I wasn't busting them enough inside,» says Saberhagen, who throws fastballs on about 75 % of his pitches — a heater that averages about 90 mph, but, on occasion, has been clocked as high as 94.