Sentences with phrase «late in a baseball game»

One used this analogy: Sometimes, late in a baseball game, an able third baseman is brought in to pitch.

Not exact matches

The average 26 - year - old player in this year's All - Star game likely has been playing baseball since age 5 and has been on a pro scout's radar since his late teens.

There's not much Major League Baseball can do to compete with the weather, but if they continue to reschedule games at such a high rate, teams might have to begin to find some creative solutions as schedules tighten later in the season.

Because the list would be revealed in late July, and the game would start in late spring, tying it to baseball was a no - brainer.

The Diamondbacks are on the verge of becoming baseball's latest Cinderella, sitting on a five - game lead in the NL West a year after finishing last with a 65 — 97 record.

When he stands in the first or third base box, yelling, sleeping, blowing kisses, spraying water, there is an actual baseball game going on, and some managers — Gene Mauch and the late Paul Richards, for instance — tried at various times to keep Max from taking the field.

Later, he was asked if he felt like Curt Flood (the plaintiff in the landmark 1972 baseball free - agency case) and therefore had been nervous in the game.

Prior to taking over the office as baseball's latest commissioner, Manfred worked alongside Selig in introducing the pitch clock, as well as creating ways of speeding up and modernizing the game.

He also was ruled out while running to first in Game 6 of the ALCS for slapping the baseball from the glove of Boston righthander Bronson Arroyo, a maneuver Red Sox ace Curt Schilling later called «bush league.»

:: danced the tricky dance of either very early or very late family dinners as baseball games and practices and dance recitals and rehearsals are in full swing for all.

However, in later games, he doesn't speak the human language (as shown in Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Super Sluggers).

Despite the cameo James Earl Jones makes late in the game (no pun intended), if you're in the market for a movie about fathers, sons, and the national pastime, best just to stick with that other sepia - tinged baseball reverie in which Jones appears — Field of Dreams, of course.

He made «Bull Durham» and «Field of Dreams» back - to - back in the late 80s, took a swing at golf with «Tin Cup» in the mid-90s, and returned to baseball «For the Love of the Game» at the end of that decade.

However, in later games, he doesn't speak the human language (as shown in Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Super Sluggers).

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King Boo would later try to get revenge in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, and the rivalry can be seen in other series as well, such as the Mario Baseball games, in which they share bad chemistry, or Super Mario 64 DS, where King Boo (Known as Big Boo in the English version) was the one to lock Luigi away.

Another example of a successful game in this subgenre is the Baseball Mogul series of the late 1990s and 2000s, as well as later incarnations of John Madden Football, one of the most lucrative video game franchises of all time.

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.

He found the iPhone 6s to be similar to the iPhone 6 in terms of battery life, just as Apple spec'd it to be, saying «Going from a heavy day of email, shooting pictures of my kid, meetings at companies like Facebook, video at a baseball game and late night Slacking all felt roughly identical on the iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6s Plus.