Sentences with phrase «lefthanded hitters»

Oliver and Rhodes are the latest members of an order of relievers with a rare skill that has allowed them to sustain unusually long careers: the ability to get lefthanded hitters out.

But it's their work against lefthanded hitters that has kept them in the game and highly valued.

Seitzer gives the Indians another righthanded bat and a perfect fit in the number 2 hole between lefthanded hitters Kenny Lofton and Thome.

In the past two years Martinez has also learned how to cut his fastball, making it bore in on the hands of lefthanded hitters.

Plesac, who had held lefthanded hitters to a.167 average before this at bat, threw a slider that didn't slide, and Everett crushed it for a game - winning home run.

Jose Ortiz has power; he could hit 15 to 20 homers... Giambi is one of the two or three best lefthanded hitters in the game.

«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.

He's got a balk move to first, which means a speedy guy on first base, like, say, Rickey Henderson, with a lefthanded hitter at the plate, has to think for a second.

A graceful fielder and a stylish lefthanded hitter, Terry was the last National Leaguer to hit.400 in a season -LRB-.401 in 1930).

Herzog is looking for a solid lefthanded hitter and another starting pitcher.

Two innings later Lamont replaced Raines with Dan Pasqua, a lefthanded hitter.

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.

A lefthanded hitter, Martin, 25, is expected to platoon with veteran Lonnie Smith, who was picked up from the Braves during the off - season.

Not exact matches

Parker is baseball's best designated hitter, and was the only formidable lefthanded batter in the Oakland lineup.

Kelly used switch - hitter Al Newman, who has one career homer, to bat for the lefthanded - hitting Hrbek (224 career homers) against Seattle southpaw Randy Johnson.

He's a gap hitter with a flowing lefthanded swing that emanates from a stance so open and upright and casual that he looks like a man at a deli counter trying to decide between the honey turkey and the smoked ham.

Of the top 30 hitters as measured by OPS, however, 17 were exclusively or predominantly lefthanded.