Sentences with phrase «last pitched in»

Raburn, who'd last pitched in a game 12 years ago at South Florida Community College, had been in manager Terry Francona's ear about pitching since spring training.

The Astros will win their first - ever championship, or the Dodgers will end their near 30 - year championship drought, as their last World Series appearance and victory came back when Orel Hersisher, who last pitched in 2000, was the same age Clayton Kershaw is now.

Keuchel is 9 - 0 with a 1.67 ERA in 11 starts for Houston this season, but last pitched in a major league game on June 2.

Like Hill, he hasn't given up just yet, last pitching in the majors in 2015 (for the Dodgers), so he can't be too out of shape.

Not exact matches

After Trump won the White House in 2016, in part with the firms help, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix went to more clients to pitch his services, the Times reported last year.

Lamb can't resist one last sales pitch: «It is an opportunity for an individual to own part of creation — the largest diamond in existence and a piece of history.»

New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair used the club's stage in 2013 to reveal the party's energy platform for the most recent federal election; MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren pitched a Toronto casino from it that same year; Governor General David Johnston announced his new innovation awards program there last summer.

Last year, during the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in San Francisco, 30 teams pitched emergency response mobile apps.

They're picky about clients, too: potential customers have submitted 30,000 projects in the last two years and Cho says the company turns down 70 % of the projects pitched to it.

The Oracle of Omaha spoke on Thursday afternoon with Dan Gilbert, the Quicken Loans CEO who has bought more than $ 1 billion in Detroit real estate in the last several years and who has pitched Buffett on Detroit before.

Last week, 25 entrepreneurs boarded the Start - up Bus in San Francisco and spent the next 48 hours developing business ideas, which they then pitched to a panel of judges at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin.

What's more, just last week the SBA hosted 16 business accelerators in Washington, D.C., to pitch their programs to high - net - worth organizations to raise money.

Last fall, the government narrowed a field of about 50 applicants to nine finalists that are made up of groups pitching projects in many different areas, including advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence and clean technology.

Using these tips to pitch our startup at GrowFashion got us the attention of Fortune 500 companies and taught us how to make a valuable connection with our audience and leave a lasting impression in less than five minutes.

In the last two weeks, I've looked at pitch decks presented to potential investors, service proposals, and emails.

In a keynote address at the Toronto Region Board of Trade last week, Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak pitched Toronto as a city «falling farther behind.»

Being pitched an introduction to a startup I've covered 4 times in last 8 months.

In a Power Pitch segment on CNBC's «Power Lunch» program last year, a panel of three investment and home experts gave the technology positive reviews.

Development advocates in College Park pitched the area early last week as an excellent candidate for Amazon after the governor and others backed Baltimore as Maryland's best bet.

After Trump won the White House in 2016, in part with the firm's help, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix went to more clients to pitch his services, the Times reported last year.

Also, put in your pitch that you're willing to be a last minute guest.

Crowdfunding has become increasingly popular over the last few years, allowing regular people pitch in to bring -LSB-...]

Canada's largest health startup showcase takes over MaRS Discovery District in Toronto on May 7 Last year's winners scaling their companies internationally, raising more than $ 36 million in combined funding On May 7, MaRS HealthKick 2015 gives 39 health startups the chance to pitch cutting - edge health technologies and products to an audience of more than 350... Read More

Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd., or Comac, is hoping to pitch its C919 jet as a homegrown competitor to Boeing's 737 and Airbus» A320, and it announced last month that it would make its first delivery in 2021.

This would pitch Just Dial with several hyperlocal product ordering and delivery startups that have launched their business in the last year.

But they certainly all got quieted down quickly last Friday after Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi got to one particular slide in his presentation pitch in his bid to become the CEO of the troubled car - hailing company.

In 1978, he pitched one final season for the Atlanta Braves when he was a year older than R.A. Dickey was last season.

And yet Peggy's preamble to her Burger Chef pitch contained this admission against interest, in reference to the moon landing broadcast: «I certainly can't tell a better story than the one we saw [on television] last night.

It is his newest pitch to make more money (number 1 reason for the show no matter what he professes), gain more power in the TV and Cable network community and last but not least create much publicity for himself.

It's also a bit of a tongue - in - cheek pitch for The Lasting Supper that I'm passionate about and care about deeply because it is really helping people explore and exercise their spiritual freedom and independence with others of like mind.

But just in case you want one last sales pitch, I should also tell you that it seems to have miraculous properties where sobriety is concerned.

The company has been working towards this goal on a shoestring since the launch in 2012 but last week were announced as Semi-Finalists in Virgin's Pitch to Rich competition.

I was at gallipoli last year to celebrate anzac day, in our little bags they gave us - they had two anzac biscuits, it was pretty unreal seeing all us Aussies line up in Turkey then let out a high pitched squeal when we realised we had anzac biccies..

Jack in the Box's infamous leader, Jack, throwing the ceremonial first pitch at last night's Dodgers game.

Last game he played against Parma he battled like mad in winning the ball, running with it half of the pitch and in the end scoring a goal by beating the keeper in a cool way.

Wilson is yet to earn a place in the Liverpool side, but won praise for his Rangers appearances last season domestically and in the UEFA Champions League, while Barry Bannan has been granted time on the pitch due to injuries to key men at Villa Park.

He's pitching in the right park for a team that will need every last scrap of help.

Sanchez stomps off pitch when substituted, this is last straw, wants to leave, wants to stay in PL so it must be manc.

The 25 - year - old was seen clutching his groin as he made his way off the pitch during the 3 - 0 win at Anfield in the first leg of their Champions League quarter - final tie last Wednesday night.

Arrieta was a 2 WAR pitcher for the entirety of last season but pitched much better in the 2nd half.

Arreita pitched above average last season but struggled in the first half... in MLB.

BRAD LIDGE had just sandblasted the Cardinals, throwing two shutout innings to save the Astros» 5 — 2 Game 3 victory in the National League Championship Series last Saturday at Minute Maid Park, when Houston pitching coach Jim Hickey was asked about Lidge's availability for the next day.

There is no reason why Wenger should have left only small players on the pitch against big players in the last twenty minutes of the game.

Just because our last two captains Arteta and Vermaelen spent more time in the treatment room than on the pitch does not make it a good idea, so it seemed logical that the boss would hand it to another player who would be playing and it was reported that it could be our midfield maestro Santi Cazorla.

Last year he pitched for the Long Island Ducks and walked 21 batters in 21 Triple - A innings.

While the squad reconvened on the training pitches in recent days, Mauricio has spent the last fortnight counting down the hours to his seventh Premier League meeting with Arsenal, his eighth overall, and plotting the Gunners» downfall in Saturday's 12.30 pm kick - off at the Emirates.

1,295 Games pitched by Tim (678) and Todd (617) Worrell, third most among major league brothers; Tim joined his brother in retirement last week after a 14 - year career.

There have been many discussions on JustArsenal over the last few years aboutour non-playing captains and lacking leadership on the pitch and in the dugout, and now one ofour Invincibles Patrick Vieira has pinpointed the differences between his generation and the present team.

It's the title game, two outs in the last inning andthe tying run on third: Do you pitch to the star hitter or lay it all on thekid who's been through hell already?

The celebration of Chris Carpenter, Big - Game Pitcher is based on the rigthanded workhorse that was: a pitcher who has posted a career 51.5 percent groundball rate, led the league with 237 1/3 innings pitched in 2011, out - dueled none other than Roy Halladay in Game 5 of the NLDS, and scored a pitching «win» in Game 7 of last year's World Series.