Sentences with phrase «major league game»

, and two or three have been privileged to work exhibition games in The Show, but so far as I know, none has ever worked a regular season major league game.

During the baseball season some 12 to 15 million Latin Americans, béisbol lovers all, tune in their radio sets several times a week to hear a toro - voiced Norteamericano broadcast major league games in Spanish.

Since his first major league game on June 16, he has batted.285, with nine home runs and 26 RBIs.

Both West and Beltre have reached impressive career thresholds in recent weeks, with the former working his 5,000 th major league game and the latter hitting his 3,000 th career hit.

Matthew Boyd has pitched ONE really good major league game in his career.

By midsummer you could plainly see Leo Durocher leaping and pivoting at shortstop when Brooklyn played Cincinnati in the first televised major league game, inaugurating a new era in baseball and perhaps a new era in ham acting as well.

He found a company that produces videotapes of major league games and bought 10 minutes of Ellis Valentine highlights.

Third: Alburquerque is three full seasons removed from his last bananas strikeout rate, and he appeared in two major league games last year.

The lowly Rangers made Clyde their first draft choice, gave him a $ 125,000 bonus, and then, amid much fanfare, announced that he would start his first major league game only 19 days after he graduated from high school.

Aaron played 2,759 regular - season major league games in the outfield, 210 at first, 202 as a designated hitter, 43 at second and seven at third.

Musial played his 3,000 th major league game that day when he pinch - hit in the 10th inning with two out, the score tied and Curt Flood on first.

Simont's feeling for baseball is all the more remarkable because he was in his 30s before he saw his first major league game.

The Dodger first baseman that day was Jackie Robinson: the first African - American to play in a major league game since the infamous «color line» was drawn in the 1880s.

Of the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he could.

Aaron Judge has plummeted back to earth, and there's no way they could have predicted Gary Sanchez would hit more homers in 30 major league games than he did in 71 Triple - A games.

• Until last week Met outfielder Vince Coleman had six intentional walks in 990 major league games — and only one since 1988.

Raising the right hand that won 224 major league games, that pitched a no - hitter in one league and a perfect game in the other, that once made him the No. 2 strikeout pitcher of all time, the Honorable Jim Bunning of Kentucky solemnly swears that he will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office he is about to assume.

Frank White, just up from Omaha, became the first graduate of the Kansas City Baseball Academy to appear in a major league game for the Royals.

Catching those starters will be Mike Matheny, who has played only 108 major league games.

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.

Gattis's folkloric status preceded him to camp this spring, long before he ever took a swing in a major league game.

New Tigers manager Buddy Bell is one of 13 men to have played in at least 2,000 major league games in this century without ever appearing in a postseason game.

A second new component to the pace of game program is the addition of timers that will measure non-game action and break time between innings and pitching changes during each Major League game.

That was the first curveball he'd ever thrown in a major league game.

This postseason, Cuberson is 6 - for - 13 -LRB-.462) with four extra-base hits after a season that saw him play in just 15 major league games in the regular season, with two singles in 13 at - bats.

He had not won a major league game in four seasons, but when erstwhile Ranger phenom David Clyde moved to Cleveland, he changed his delivery and his luck

In 1910 he became the first president to throw out the opening pitch at a major league game, and some believe he invented the seventh - inning stretch when he stood up (no word on whether he was looking for a hot dog vendor) and the crowd followed suit.

He's stood there before in a major league games.

But it's going to take 100 victories to win the NL West, and the Astros, 81 - 81 last year, aren't that good yet — not with a shortstop (Andujar Cedeno) who spent half of last season in the minors, a leftfielder (Luis Gonzalez) who hit only.243 and a catcher (Eddie Taubensee) who has played in just 130 major league games.

# 47 Deacon Phillippe RURAL RETREAT Pitched in majors from 1899 to 1911 for Louisville Colonels and Pirates; 189 victories in 372 major league games.

Fifty years ago this week a would - be Cincinnati chanteuse named Kitty Burke dug her high heels into the dirt of the Crosley Field batter's box and became the first and only woman to bat — albeit unofficially — during a major league game.

Since being released by the Tigers in mid-season 2015 he has only appeared in 26 major league games.

Even my friends, who wouldn't call themselves baseball fans, have fun when we head to a major league game.

We are going to a major league game in September and were going to buy tickets behind home plate.

You can book tickets to a minor or major league game, sit by the dugout or up in the nosebleed seats (where the atmosphere is often the best!)

Also, they played so long before Robinson that no one in the stadiums was alive the last time an African American man appeared in a Major League game.