Sentences with phrase «of a baseball game at»

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Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

You could also think of your brain like a baseball game, according to Yuval Nir, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

«So if you want to play [fantasy] baseball, you can play today's games; you don't have to start at the beginning of the season.»

Worse, they were run by executives who were still viewed as know - it - all baseball outsiders — like the G.M., former management consultant Jeff Luhnow, and the so - called Director of Decision Sciences, the former NASA engineer Sig Mejdal — even though the men had at that point worked within the game for a decade.

those who worship the gods of sports do the same at a football, baseball, soccer, basketball game etc..

For instance, trying to block the sale of beer at baseball games.

Who has time for meditating at work when there are football fantasies, bowl (and football and basketball and baseball) pools, golf leagues, fitness centers, video games and coffee breaks to get finished before the end of the day!!!

You remind me fans at baseball game that can't name who number 5 is of who the left fielder is?

Honestly, sunflower seeds remind me of gross people spitting them out at baseball games.

Think about it... peanut butter + jelly is probably the only sandwich you wanted for lunch as a kid, Reese's are your favorite candy, and you can finish two bags of shelled peanuts at any baseball game.

But my most vivid memory is from a baseball game in thelate 1960s at the University of Miami, when head coach Ron Fraser was knockedunconscious by a line - drive foul ball while in the third base coaching box (Hitin the Head, April 20).

For at least 33 percent of every game, the Yankees will have three pitchers among the best in baseball at limiting runs.

According to Major League Baseball, the standings at the start of Tuesday featured as much parity as we've had since 1995, with 18 teams within at least five games of a postseason berth.

They're playing much better baseball than you would suspect given their run differential, too: the Giants have given up at least 10 runs in four games this year, losing all of them by a combined score of 51 - 20.

Harvey's Legacy Harvey Haddix, who died of emphysema last week at age 68, will forever be remembered for the 12 innings of perfect baseball he threw for the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 26, 1959, arguably the best - pitched game in history.

Unless you're some sort of phenom, odds are good that if you are headed to a quality four year baseball program, you're not going to see a lot of the field for the first two years; you may possibly even redshirt as a freshman and not get any game action in at all.

It would be nice to be able to get value out of switching on whichever game has the best or most interesting players at any given time, though on the other hand baseball probably saps enough of my productivity when I'm watching / following at most one game per day.

These days baseball belongs to the biggest, strongest men ever to have played the game swinging extremely light bats at baseballs that seem harder and livelier while the dimensions of ballparks and the strike zone grow smaller.

The Cardinals opened the season at 12/1 to win the title, but with a 19 - 6 start through the first 25 games of the season and the lowest team ERA in baseball at 2.44 the Cards have moved their way up the betting board.

And with Major League Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, in 1947.

• Mayock, a college safety at Boston College, on his draft day — April 29, 1981, when he was chosen in the 10th round, by the Steelers, 265th overall, just 257 picks after a slightly more famous defensive back in the draft, Ronnie Lott: «I was the captain of the Boston College baseball team, and we had games on both days.

According to a 1979 study of 39 professional baseball games, 77 % of the fights in the stands occurred in the least expensive seats; 69 % happened at night; and 70 % in the last four innings, when alcohol had taken hold.

In the manner of the NHL and the NBA, baseball has decided to let no game go unmediated; no inning, no at bat, no single moment is allowed to pass without a deafening infusion of prerecorded enthusiasm.

Ken Harrelson of the Athletics told everyone he would win the baseball players» golf tournament in Miami, and he did — just as he has been beating people at the game of their choice for most of his 24 years

According to James Daly, the executive director, he secured the games for Winnipeg by showing movies of the crowds at exhibition baseball (the St. Louis Cardinals came one year) and bingo games.

He'd played on a baseball team in Australia, where parents applauded and cooed, «Awwww, bad luck, mate,» whenever a boy or girl on his team swung and missed by a foot — and he'd played on a traveling AAU baseball team in the U.S., where parents stormed the dugout and seethed at coaches for pulling their sons out of games so benchwarmers could have a chance.

If you had designs on a think piece about the Death of the All - Star Game and What It Means For Baseball, well, have at it.

It reminded me of the heckling my friends and I used to do in college at baseball games: If we stuck to straightforward and somewhat devastating statements without any vulgarity, security couldn't make us leave.

«I do want to be remembered as someone who is madly in love with the game of baseball, someone who loves it at every level,» Rodriguez said.

Johnny Manziel isn't just good at making headlines for partying in Las Vegas or taking a bunch of girls to a baseball game.

The 2016 major league baseball season is officially underway, with Francisco Liriano the driving force behind the Pittsburgh Pirates» 4 - 1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday afternoon at PNC Park in the first game of the season.

At Bronco Baseball Academy, we believe that every camper can improve their skills, have fun with friends, and increase their love of the game in a fun, safe, and challenging environment.

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Of course, you know the San Diego Chicken, the clown in fowl costume who entertains crowds, mainly at baseball games.

Central played its home games at Gill Stadium, a now -100-year-old structure that back then had a baseball diamond running through the middle of its natural grass field.

The best seats in baseball are still at Tiger Stadium, maybe 10,000 of them that put the spectator closer to the game than he would be at any other stadium.

I grew up a Giants and A's fan, had season tickets for both B.A. teams, even rooted for the Giants at the 1989 W.S., but I would be dishonoring my father and the great game of baseball if I supported a team whose owners biggest fear is baseball having a level playing field!

Unlike baseball where the home team receives the last at bat of every game, there is no tangible in - game advantage to home field advantage in football with the exception of crowd noise.

After all, the Gators and Demon Deacons have done far more sitting around waiting than actually playing the sport of baseball this weekend, and managing to control the ebbs and flows of one's emotions — from in - game preparedness and focus to the boredom of doing nothing at all — can probably run a player psychologically ragged.

Today, in London alone there are 380 soccer fields, and the attendance last season at games played by teams of Great Britain's four major leagues was more than 34 million — more than twice as many as attended major league baseball games in the U.S. this year.

He was also earning his varsity A as student manager of the baseball team, working as sports stringer for out - of - town Alabama papers, writing scripts for the football coaches» radio show, playing sandlot baseball and announcing downs and yards to go on the P.A. system at Alabama football games.

«I look at it as 18 baseball games played simultaneously and then we choose which of those baseball games you get,» audio mixer Chris Acker observed.

With any given Red Sox - Yankees game crawling along at about the same tortoise - like clip as a final round of the U.S. Open, baseball officials are as concerned about losing young fans as those involved with the business of golf are with attracting the same demographic.

That's an excellent comp for Buxton, as far as raw tools go, and Dawson was one of the better prospects in the game at the time, rushing through the minors after coming out of baseball powerhouse Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

The Chicago Cubs owned the best record in baseball through the first 30 games of the season at 24 - 6.

Garcia will be competing all summer long as a member of the Auburn Wildcats, a college wooden - bat league baseball team that plays its home games at James Field in Auburn.

Mrs. Musial, in pink cotton, stood at Stan's side by home plate, clutching in one hand a new baseball, as if the feel of it reassured her that her connection with the game would remain unbroken.

You know exactly the type of person someone is based on whether or not they would steal a baseball from a little kid at a game.

According to the Youtube description:» Call of Duty Nazi Zombies comes to life at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, when two UNCG baseball players discover they are transported into a baseball zombies version of the COD game.