Sentences with phrase «league pitchers pitching»

Not exact matches

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 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 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.

This season, the senior pitcher picked up where she and the Huskies left off, handling the majority of the pitching workload and adding a potent bat to lead the team to a Delta League championship and the No. 1 seed in the SJS Div.

It's worth noting that Long is the ERA leader among Southern League pitchers with the requisite innings pitched.

The way he could change a pitcher's entire career with 1 pitch deep dives and his dedication to the minor leagues with player interviews (I'm still a part of the «Gomber Pyle» fan club) got me so focused on baseball minutia you could have swore he miscounted my Ritalin.

So you can see why a big league pitcher must have three good pitches.

«Hitters disregard the inside corner so much that you can throw a pitch in the strike zone and they'll jackknife out of the way,» says one American League All - Star pitcher.

Plus, Florida is asking for a lot: It was close to a deal with the Rockies, but Colorado didn't want to give up a top pitching prospect plus a major league pitcher...

EFFECTIVE TEAM PITCHING The Phillies just missed leading the National League in batting -LRB-.266), but their pitchers allowed the opposition an even better batting average.

Only one pitcher (Mike Leake) on the team pitched more than 10 innings with an adjusted ERA worse than the league average.

A year later Brees met with former major league pitcher Tom House, now 63, a pitching coach at USC with a Ph.D. in performance psychology.

That is why the Little League Baseball and Softball organization has established maximum pitch counts, or limits on the number of throws a pitcher can make in a game, and how many days of rest pitchers need between the days that they pitch.

The number of pitches thrown by major league pitchers is closely monitored to protect against injury, but monitoring pitch count is even more important in younger players because growing bones and joints are more susceptible to injury than in adults.

i would almost say with the dearth of pitching around he league and what we have stockpiled we simply gamble that our pitchers will pay off and load up on offense in fa.

The blueprint to follow, ever since the Royals decided shortening the game to make up for their league - average (or worse) starting pitchers was the way to go, was to get as many nigh - unhittable strikeout machines as you could, and then deploy them all one inning at a time until your opponents were weeping while whiffing on pitches they had no chance against.

«He's the best pitcher in the National League right now,» says Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone.

These guys get on you early and then suffocate you with pitching and D. Ross Neuman has certainly allowed the fewest earned runs, of any qualified pitcher, in the League.

He had 21 wild pitches last year, the most by any National League pitcher since Tony Cloninger threw 27 away in 1966.

He crushed Double - A pitching, though, batting.300 /.369 /.575 with 18 homers in the cooler, pitcher - friendly Eastern League, where the average position player batted.259 /.331 /.399 and is 24 years old.

In its continuing effort to protect the health and safety of youth pitchers, and to reflect the latest research on pitching injuries, Little League made additional changes in its rules, which went into effect for the spring 2010 season and beyond.

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.

According to a 2011 study by researchers at the University of North Carolina commissioned by Little League, its pitch count program appears to be working, reducing the risk of shoulder injury among pitchers in Little League Baseball (ages 8 to 13) by 50 percent.

In an effort to stem the alarming increase in elbow and shoulder injuries among young baseball pitchers, Little League Baseball adopted important rules in 2007 to limit the number of pitches a pitcher can throw in a game and how much rest he must take pitching appearances.

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 count.

Revised pitch count limits, longer mandatory rest periods, and other rule changes implemented by Little League Baseball in 2010 to reduce shoulder and elbow overuse injuries to youth baseball pitchers remain in effect for 2014.

49 percent of pitchers threw in more than one league at a time, and 25 percent pitched in a league more than nine months out of the year.

All pitchers were under the age of 25 and had pitched at least one third of an inning in major league baseball.

«Conventional wisdom among coaches and managers is that restricting innings for young starting pitchers, and slowly increasing the number of innings pitched over several years, gives pitchers» tissues sufficient time to adapt to the workload of a major league season,» said Thomas Karakolis, lead investigator on the study.

An investigation conducted by Major League Baseball determined that a member of the Red Sox training staff used the smartwatch to receive information that helped the team's players decipher hand signals used by the opposing team's catcher, who is in charge of making (and signaling) the pitch selections for the pitcher.