Sentences with phrase «ninth inning»

In ninth inning situations, the difference between a completed save and a blown one is fairly easy to figure on the win probability scale, especially in the bottom of the ninth.

He might pitch an inning in the postseason before the team is eliminated, or he might pitch low - pressure ninth innings with five - run leads because his team is doing so well.

St. Louis is still enjoying the win against the Nationals, but when it comes time to play ball again, they will ride the momentum of a four - run ninth inning on Friday night that saw the team's offense produce nine runs.

He didn't get the Evangelical Catholicism of John Paul II, but his work gave the liberal wing of Counter-Reformation Catholicism a boisterous ninth inning.

It makes sense: if the Dodgers can't keep the Astros from scoring more runs, they're not going to have a chance to close this out with their normal ninth inning guy, anyway.

It was only the third ninth inning inside - the - park home run in Red Sox playoff history and the fourth postseason instance of it happening in the ninth ever.

It was a comparatively moderate 43 ° at game time — despite forecasts that had predicted temperatures in the 30s or even the 20s — but by the climactic ninth inning the thermometer had dropped perhaps five degrees.

Atlanta rallied to within 4 - 3 on more conventional American League tactics — a triple and two home runs — before Orioles closer Randy Myers sealed the win with a perfect ninth inning.

It was the kind of ninth inning most of us dream about over and over when our teams are in a seemingly impossible situation.

We dream and hope and what - if our way through the entire ninth inning, even though it never happens.

One week later, with the Rays leading Toronto 1 — 0 and two outs inthe ninth inning, Blue Jays catcher Rod Barajas hit a deep drive to leftfield.Taking Maddon's words to heart, Ruggiano crashed into the fence to steal a suredouble from Barajas and save the game.

Grand slams, bases loaded with Ortiz up at bat, crazy ninth inning catches by Veritek to save the game - you know, all that stuff.

The inning is over now, but again, it's 6 - 1 now after an eight - batter, five - run ninth inning for Los Angeles.

«If you don't have the guts to be entirely in real estate, which I think is more in the eighth or ninth inning, I think stocks are still in the third or fourth inning, which nobody is talking about because I think multiples should be much, much higher,» Chase told CNBC PRO.

«It's the ninth inning, it's the fourth quarter or whatever time frame that resonates as well as the obvious meaning, which is something like, «We haven't had a recession yet, but we're about to, and if that's the case, stocks are way too expensive.»»

The relievers leading up to Brandon League are inexperienced, too — not to mention that League himself has a lot to learn about pitching the ninth inning.

If I watched this video in early 1997, I would have sworn stocks were in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Fastball pitchers normally tire by the ninth inning, and since my book was the ninth of nine reviewed by Charlotte Allen in» The Holy Feminine» (December 1999), perhaps fastball fatigue explains why she threw those wicked curves at my Roses, Fountains, and Gold: The Virgin Mary in History, Art, and Apparition.

At an age where most of his contemporaries are better known for what they did than what they're doing, Springsteen seems to have hit a ninth inning stride.

It turned out to be a fantastic game, with Venezuela coming back in the ninth inning, and Italy rallying furiously in the bottom half of the ninth, but it was played in front of a smattering of fans, and I'm pretty sure not all of them were of the painted - face or homemade - sign set.

Charlie Morton hit for himself to lead off the ninth inning.

In the ninth inning, with Aroldis Chapman trying to save the pennant, Carlos Ruiz was up.

Jansen was gassed in the ninth inning.

I would use Britton before Brach in the ninth inning of a tie game on the road, but I'm not going to hold my breath and turn blue when a manager saves his closer to go with someone who would also make an excellent closer.

The White Sox were leading the Yankees 2 - 1 in the ninth inning.

Two division rivals in the ninth inning.

That was in the ninth inning, with the Dodgers down by three runs.

On his last time up in the ninth inning, with a man on second in a close game, I threw a pitch in the same place and he hit a line drive into right field.

Say there are two out in the ninth inning and you've got a two - run lead and nobody on.

In the ninth inning he homered and the Tigers won 4 - 3.

After battling Ramon Hernandez for 10 pitches to start the bottom of the ninth inning, Wes Littleton got the strikeout on a nasty slider.

The last pitch Shuey threw in the top of the ninth inning was a meatball that was hit about 360 feet for an out.

With two outs in the ninth inning and the Athletics up 5 - 4, Marte swung and missed at the first pitch he saw from Oakland closer Sean Doolittle, but in doing so let go of the bat, which flew backward and hit Emmel in the head.

In Chicago the game had reached the ninth inning, and again the Tigers were threatening.

The Yankees rallied in the ninth inning and won the game 4 - 3.

A few minutes earlier the Red Sox had gone into the ninth inning trailing the Angels 5 - 2, but a two - run home run by Joe Foy and another home run by Tony Conigliaro had tied the game, in the 10th the Red Sox had wrapped it up.

«The bottom line is I'll take Kenley any day of the week with a one - run lead going into the ninth inning,» manager Dave Roberts said.

He said he overcame his late - inning jitters by «making believe the ninth inning was the seventh.»

St. Louis also had a superlative pitching effort from Rick Wise, who lost a no - hitter in the ninth inning of an 8 - 0 win over Cincinnati.

But the stunner was the solo shot by Marwin Gonzalez in the ninth inning against closer Kenley Jansen to tie the score, handing Jansen the first blown save of his postseason career.

The Dodgers were 98 - 0 this season, including the playoffs, when leading at the beginning of the ninth inning, the only team in baseball not to lose in that situation in 2017.

For Guidry, who on four occasions had been knocked out in the ninth inning, it was his first complete game.

I remember when ESPN cut away from regular programming to show the ninth inning of Halladay's second career start, in which he was an out away from a perfect game.

Then, with a one - run lead in the ninth inning and two men on base via walks, pinch - hitter Cookie Lavagetto hit a double off the right - field wall ending Bevens» no - hitter and winning the game for Brooklyn.

In only one game, though, when he stole two bases in the ninth inning against Cleveland on May 1, had he stolen with his team ahead by more than four runs.

On July 2, against Texas, he stole in the ninth inning with his team behind 7 - 0, and on June 4 he stole against Milwaukee when his team trailed 9 - 0 in the third inning.

But he did his best to assess the mood of the assembled governors and thereupon expressed his pitch in metaphor: «There are a lot of ball games being won in the ninth inning this year.»

Leading off the ninth inning with this game tied 1 - 1, Everett — who often bats lefthanded against soft - throwing lefthanders — hit from the left side against hard - throwing southpaw reliever Dan Plesac.

In the ninth inning, Bailey got Brandon Crawford to ground out, he struck out Tony Abreu, and then the final out, Gregor Blanco, to bounce out to third.