Sentences with phrase «league fastballs»

Or having beefcake star Dwayne Johnson flex his pectorals at incoming chokeberries, sending 3 - D major league fastballs whizzing at our heads.

Nonetheless, as Dodgers minor league director Charlie Blaney says, «It's getting more and more difficult to find prospects with an average major league fastball — 85 to 89 on the gun.»

In the early innings he simply overpowered the Quebec batters with his major league fastball.

Not exact matches

Van Poppel's fastball is instead popping in the A's minor league system.

What we see might be what we get, and what we're seeing is about 600 innings of league - average pitching, with imperfect command and a much lower strikeout rate than his mid-90s fastball suggests.

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.

The Dodgers ordered him to throw fastballs 80 % of the time at rookie league Great Falls.

He is closer to the complete player now — 10 full years in the league, improvements made in his skating and stickhandling and his overall sense of the game, second last year to Boston's Ray Bourque in the balloting for the Norris Trophy as the top NHL defenseman — but there still is a touch of the fastball wunderkind to him.

Actually, the [percentage of] fastballs thrown in the American League in those counts was about one percent higher.»

The American League long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastLeague long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastleague than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastballs.

His fastball, which opposing hitters had a.217 AVG against in his first major league campaign last season, averages 96.1 mph.

Little League did not institute a ban on curve balls, and, in light of new research suggesting that the pitch does not, contrary to conventional wisdom, put more strain on a young pitcher's elbow than other pitches (indeed, the research suggests curveballs place less stress on the elbow than a fastball), was perhaps correct in not doing so.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Major League Baseball pitchers who throw a high percentage of fastballs may be at increased risk for Tommy John surgery, according to research at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

To celebrate the unofficial first day of spring, Major League Baseball's Opening Day, the National Association of REALTORS ® is serving up a fastball of recent real estate facts that correspond to each of the nine positions on a baseball field: