Sentences with phrase «much as pitcher»

Maybe lineups should be viewed in light of possible defensive shift mixes as much as pitcher handedness and nominal position, especially with starters going fewer innings (making platoon splits against the opposing starting pitcher less important).

Not exact matches

Allow the cream / milk to steep with the popcorn for 10 - 15 minutes, then strain the liquid through a fine mesh sieve into a small pitcher or liquid measure, pressing the solids with the back of a spoon or ladle to release as much liquid as possible.

Strain through a fine - mesh sieve lined with a layer of cheesecloth into a large pitcher, squeezing out as much liquid as possible.

If the mango is hard, slice away as much fruit from the pit as possible; if the mango is very soft and juicy, simply «milk» the pit over the blender pitcher by squeezing and pressing the flesh to get the juice out.

In a large mixing bowl or pitcher, add Brandy and Cointreau, then the maple syrup, and stir to incorporate as much as possible.

In blender combine all ingredients, poor through fine mesh, pressing through as much as possible with spatula into glass pitcher.

Let blackberry syrup cool, then strain through a fine - mesh sieve into a large pitcher, pressing on fruit to extract as much liquid as you possibly can; discard solids.

It might be prudent to anticipate a scenario in which one or two pitchers don't pitch as much in October.

How much better would this team look (and the organization as a whole) if they still had a young, up - and - coming pitcher with team options through 2021?

There isn't too much I can say about either one except stress the fact that I consider them just about as important as anything a pitcher can have.

If a pitcher is a good fast ball pitcher, he operates in much the same way, using his curve as a waste pitch and to keep the batter guessing, his changeup to keep him off balance, the fast ball to get him out.

«What it takes to succeed as a pitcher now is so much more refined than it was 10 years ago,» says St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan.

21 BOB LEMON, PITCHER: The big right - hander still throws smoothly and easily at 35 and is just as much a threat to win 20 games as ever — he's missed it only twice in eight years.

Urias has as much talent as any pitcher in baseball.

«It isn't as much fun as hitting home runs,» he says, «but we're winning, and I have to take what the pitchers give me.»

In such a situation the relieving pitcher is allowed as much time as he wants to warm up.

BIG LEAGUE SECRETS: CAUSE AND EFFECT Sirs: As an avid baseball fan, to whom the pitcher has always been the most interesting player on the team (I married one who gave it up to study medicine), I want you to know how much Sal Maglie's fine article (SI, March 17) will increase my enjoyment of the game.

Oh, and I'm much more an optimist than anything else — I think Ausmus is much better than most fans want to believe, I would rather have Miggy and JV retire as the all - time greatest Tigers hitter and pitcher than see them traded for a rebuild, and I always believe this could be the year.

Reminder: David Price is a great pitcher, and his postseason struggles mean exactly as much as his struggles from April 21 - 28, 2015.

Pitchers have to throw out of the stretch, can't shift as much, have to worry about bouncing a breaking ball in the dirt so you end up throwing more straight stuff.

Much of this stems from the fact that batters almost always hit better against opposite - sided pitchers, and that there are — naturally, as only about 10 % of people are lefthanded — many more righthanded pitchers than lefties.

Not necessarily players purposefully «shooting middle» as much as the fact that pitchers are in the direct line of danger.

Yoenis Cespedes is a fine replacement for Torii Hunter, David Price is one of the only pitchers who could replace Max Scherzer at the top of a rotation, and Anthony Gose's talent would probably play Austin Jackson's talent in a film adaptation, so it's not as if they're that much different from last year's.

I'm curious hypothetically in the case of a young pitcher coming from the D - league and playing his way onto the team as much as I'm asking about Wisler specifically.

The pitcher makes those middle of the night feedings so much easier — no need to spill powdered formula all over your counters as you sleepily make a new bottle!

Diaz, who resigned his state House seat to run for the Senate and is known almost universally as «Pepi,» spent much of Saturday outside an early voting site in Southwest Miami with Cuban - born retired Major League Baseball pitcher Camilo Pascual.

Once a pitcher starts «aiming his pitches,» as the commentators call it, their voices heavy with foreboding, it usually isn't very long before he's back riding a tractor near the house he was born in, cursing his mental apparatus and simultaneously using it to figure out how much he can get for the sweat - stained athletic supporter he pilfered from an all - star teammate.

Like Maisano and Pitcher, Usher sees the Jupiter scene in Cymbeline as a response to Galileo's discovery — but he takes «Shakespearian science» much further, arguing that examples of the playwright's scientific knowledge can be found in works spanning his entire career.

But as anyone who's powered through a bowl of guacamole and a pitcher of champagne punch at a party knows, too much of a good thing can suddenly feel bad.

Strain into a pitcher or large heatproof container, pushing on the herbs to squeeze out as much liquid as possible.

We believed he was a MLB starting pitcher almost as much as we bought Denis Leary playing a grizzled NFL coach.

What this says about me as the pitcher or catcher in domination scenarios is, admittedly, too much, but regardless, I came to this sub-genre late enough to not be terribly titillated by the Sapphic exploits of our European beauties, if interested in a detached way in smut peddlers and connoisseurs.

Installed in the old Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, the much - talked - about monumental sugar sphinx draws more than 130,000 visitors; inspires praise, countless opinions and selfies, and a porcelain pitcher; earns her recognition from Wall Street Journal Magazine as its 2014 Art Innovator and a spot on Foreign Policy magazine's list of leading 2014 Global Thinkers; and is currently being explored in «Afterword,» an exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins Gallery in New York.

Wonderfully off - hand and slovenly in a way that brings to mind doilies and contorted cigar cleaners as much as amateur pottery, the piece owes something to the imposing clusters of vases and pitchers for which Mr. Lord was first known but has its own raucous D.I.Y. energy, and an air of inclusiveness that this show, ambitious as it is, might have taken a little more to heart.

In addition, girls seek out and engage in child - care, play parenting and other domestic activities (e.g., playing house)-- with younger children or child substitutes, such as dolls — much more frequently than do same - age boys (Pitcher & Schultz, 1983), as is the case with many other species of primate (Nicolson, 1987).»

Have a small pitcher of warm milk and a bowl of sugar for each princess to add as much as she likes.